It has been announced that on Monday December 7, 2020 teachers will be forced to return to in person learning.  Covid cases are increasing at a rapid rate. Not only have you decided to send us back into the schools, but you have also increased the amount of days students are to be in the classroom. Doing this will ensure that teachers are unable to safety follow social distancing guidelines because we have too many children in our classrooms. The communities that we work in are not safe. Most of them are already in the yellow and red zones and those that are not will soon be there. We love our profession and building relationships with our students within the classroom but we need to make sure that we are alive and safe to continue doing our job.

We have been sold out by our Union president without a clear explanation or rationale that makes sense. We believe that closing schools is the only way to keep our teachers and their families safe during this time where people are continuing to gather for the holidays . We are asking that you please take our lives and health into consideration and reopen schools after the holidays when the rates have dropped and it is safe to do so. With today’s technology, we will still be able to progress academically.