The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association says it is asking the province to undo the decision to end masking in all schools on March 21 because teacher and student absences due to COVID-19 are causing “whiplash disruptions to the learning environment.”
“The number of children being admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 symptoms is spiking. As per data from the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, case counts are skyrocketing, with COVID-19 wastewater measurements indicating that the province is now seeing more than 100,000 cases a day.” The province does not report how many teachers and staff contract COVID-19 as it did during 2020 and 2021. It also
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Classic Fear mongering. Most teachers I know disagree with mandatory mask. I'm interested in knowing where these teachers are?
Ford is still a COVID DENIER
Why don’t we replace teachers with Siri or Alexa.. This way we lower budget spending and they won’t be scared of a child without a face diaper.. 🤷🏼♂️
No Plz No!!! We have had enough of it! No more captivity of masks as I said earlier...plz we need to live our lives as normal! We have to learn to just live with this new virus. It's not going away and here to stay so just learn to adjust and live with its existence. Simple!
He said NO already. Stop
No masks in schools please. Mentally healthy kids what we need for a better future. Keep your immune strong , get your vax. Rest is 5 days of lethargic feeling plus runny nose etc
No!
It's just another wave. It has nothing to do with masks. No more masks.
nope
Where was the teacher's union two months ago? Two years ago? They've kept silent as the teachers were thrown under the pandemic bus.
For healthy ppl. Who get covid, it's like a cold and recover! For ppl. Who r susceptible, protect urself. No different than a person with life allergy who has to watch n protect themselves. Not everyone else because of ur allergy. Same thing. Move on
I wish more of the teachers at our school would lead by example and mask up WellingtonCath . Lead by example. I thought our school motto was 'Christian and Friendly' not masking or caring about infecting vulnerable people is the opposite of Christian and friendly
How moronic of a statement is that! In every single wave, WITH MASKS, the numbers STILL went up - without masks numbers still happening. It is time to live with COVID!!
Sheep!!! So disgusting!!! 🤢
If the teachers are so worried then double mask then. Masks on kids = child abuse it’s abnormal to accept masks as a way of life
BREAKING: Ford says: “shhhh you are spoiling my plans to decimate education”
Of course. It’s all about control.
Why does everyone need the government to tell them what to do? If you’re worried wear an N95 mask and call it a day, masks do work but only proper ones, not dollar store masks, so stop trying to force others into wearing them
These teachers need to teach and stop with this mask mandate … your job is too teach which isn’t happening
Trump Head Ford!! Nonsense
Leave it to the media to stir up the pot more and divide... People who want to wear a mask wear a mask if you don't want to wear a mask don't wear a mask... If you feel vulnerable get a fourth booster... We have to respect individual choice and move forward..
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We tried masks. Waves kept coming. Schools still shut down last year at this time. It might be time to admit only lockdowns slow down spread.
Leave the kids alone selfish people like teachers should not even have a union!.
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Move on people...stop hanging on to the covid flu. Oh wait...no one is actually reading this post because the whole organization is full of shit.
Thanks to everyone who gave up the mask b.s, life is almost normal again and well it feels nice not to have to hide behind some political b.s. breathing in the fresh air and talking to people has never felt so nice. So thank you you guys and gals :)
I see a lot of comments on people wanting masks to come back. The question for all of you is when will you stop wearing masks? Covid will be here with us for the rest of all of our lives. Will you wear a mask until the day you die? Is that how you want to live?
Imagine thinking your mask makes any difference!
Ford has curiously gone MIA. Is he in hiding? Incognito? Is he vacationing in Cabo on the tax payer dime?
These teachers need to relax. Really tired of their crying about everything, these poor kids they never think of them.
Omfg what the F is wrong with everyone
1st of all the test results are highly inaccurate 2nd the survival rate for covid is well over 99%. Covid cannot be stopped vaxxed or not. It needs to run its course cant keep a muzzle on our children forever long term psychological effects are much worse. Facts not emotions
No thanks! If they are scared wear a mask and if they work there isn’t a problem
Orrr just wear your mask if you choose? My older daughter says that most kids are still wearing theirs...seems a lot of the teachers have dropped theirs though 🤔
Just because it isn’t mandated anymore doesn’t mean you have to stop wearing them. Make your own choice!
Do people really need to be told to put on a mask ? Maybe they need to learn how to make their own decisions. Or be a puppet to the government.
Funny how icu admissions are down from last week. Still at 166. Sure looks like this 6th “wave” is nothing. What happened to the daily Ukraine coverage. I guess we’ve moved back to Covid.
fordnation JustinTrudeau, was it for votes, pressure from business owners that the mask and mandates were lifted..? It couldn’t have been ‘cause of the few idiots that were protesting about the masks..? The needs of the many, outweighs the needs or demands of the few..
Barely any teachers are wearing them in either of my kids schools (1 in elementary, one in high school), so there is that…
Instead of pleading with the government why does the board not issue its own mandate, there are lots of companies that are doing their own mask mandates….CP24 why don’t you report on that? Why is your reporting alway negative
Teachers unions should have opposed lifting mask mandate when it was announced (before March break).
Why? How are people who have never thought to wonder what it is that’s fogging up their glasses whiled masked allowed to teach anyone anything? Honestly, it’s a pretty basic concept. If there is fog, the mask isn’t working. Does fear kill brain cells?
You may wear masks if you wish. Just do it!!
Yes! For fuck's sakes fordnation get over yourself!!!
Bring back the rock!
Masks? $$$$ how much How much is the covid's budget?
People should know what’s the word mandate means. It is absolutely necessary to wear a mask in public area during pandemic. However, if government drop the mandate, it does not mean you don’t need to wear a mask, it is just that the mandate has been removed.
If your afraid then wear a mask! My kid will not wear one ever again!!!!!! I want to have options just like you do now! Wear one if I want or don’t! And my kid was sick twice but was not positive she had a stomach bug just like kids had it for ages! Remember Flu! It’s still here!
CTFFCEpresident VoteFordOut2022 Ford prefers business before people.
They can take wear them.... Don't have to impose your preferences on others
If you want your kids to wear a mask, have them wear it. It’s freedom of choice. Liberty.
My 52 year old neighbor & wife on 2nd time with covid 52 he had a heart attack last night In ICU At least he is alive Covid is no joke
It’s amazing how people are so easily conditioned to believe everything the media says. Before vaccines were even out the media made it clear that kids 18 and younger would be fine. (Excluding those who have any pre-existing conditions) 1/
Hate these vaxxed spreaders
Truckers drive trucks, not dictate health policy during a pandemic. A government that allows that is incompetent at best or criminally negligent at worst...... No wonder they keep going into hiding
More evidence that teachers in this province do not care about your children
FUCKING CLOWN WORLD!!!
NO NO NO ENOUGH!!!!
Who said Omicron is better than all the vaccines.
How about stop teaching people about a religion that protects child predators.
As a parent i say to CP24 to fuck off and leave us alone
do you have proof of this?
Read the excellent article in National Post today but the fearmongers want Ford to put all restrictions back Article was referring to juni without calling juni out
Please don’t!!!
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fordnation Sflecce stay the course. This burden can’t continue to be on our kids.
I hope he stands his ground
Can the board not just do it themselves?
How about teacher unions stick to education? Leave the choice to parents. Why is the media and some people so afraid of moving forward? Clearly masks haven't worked or this pandemic would have been over long ago. Masks do not prevent transmission
What a bunch of garbage. You have access to a vaccine and you can wear your mask. Why force others to wear a mask?! After over 2 years of this if you still feel scared either stay home or catch a ride with spaceX to Mars and for God's sake stay there.
Over 100,000 cases per day and opportunity for a lot more mutations is not enough for Ford, his government believes in crossing figures is the only true solution?
Are u saying… removing mask mandates when we were at 100k cases a day… was premature
Teachers are free to wear masks if they wish
Shut up with this already!
No thanks! Who ever is worried has the option to wear N95 mask which protects the person wearing it. Move on! Enough fear mongering !
It’s a safer play to mask up, we aren’t learning from our mistakes if we do not.
Are they fucked up. If you mask your kids you have a problem.
'Ontario’s third largest teachers’ union is calling on the Ford government to reinstitute mandatory masking in schools, saying that it’s needed to keep schools from shutting down due to teacher absences and rising case counts among students.' Are all these children vaccinated ?
Teacher here. I don’t support this
Yea I'll be pulling my kid from school before she's re-masked. Enough is enough.
Imagine not talking about masks and just living life 😂
fordnation don’t bend to the unions. We don’t want masks back in schools. It’s harming our children’s development.
Don’t bend to the unions. Parents and kids don’t want masks.
It’s kind of late in the game now.
I am vaccinated and got covid. I am no longer wearing a mask. Do it if you want to. Respect all of those who don't want to.
Why are they asking People can wear it if they want, vax or not. If you are vax what the fck are you worry about?😩
😄😄😄 teachers unions 😄😄😄 too bad the teachers can't decide weather or not to wear a mask... they need their union to tell them what to do. What's wrong with this education system... its Failing everyone...
My son ALWAYS wears a mask. Unmasked classmate gave it to him.
For all the ignorance, I will see a mass of children with social and psychological problems, kids that doesn’t read facial expression etc… people are so blind. Poor kids with parents that doesnt even know how much they are impact ( for the worst) their lives for a virus low MR
teach_n_travel Ford hasn't listened to teachers in his entire life, and it shows. I doubt his ass will start now.
Don't do such a ridiculous thing
Teachers went away on march break vacations, now the schools are paying the price.
Oh My God!!! We need someone to make something mandatory that is already voluntary...think of the children....LFMAO people are such F%%ing Reta×%^ds
Why not make it optional? If the vaccines are so amazing and the masks are so effective.. those who have the jab and wear a mask have nothing to worry about. Right? Leave the kids alone
Yawn. Oh 👀 look candy. Mmmm
Follow the science people
It is a crime when politicians can override Doctors when it comes to our health.
Yeah no thanks. We’ve done enough muzzling kids for one lifetime.
Lol, I don’t understand the mix of politics and medical decisions
Union trying to force kids to wear dirty masks! Trying to be relevant.
Makes sense my mask won't work unless you wear yours how dumb are we
No mask please
People got vaxxed so we didn't have to keep wearing this shit! Get over it!
Have you met fordnation? He only listens to people that can reward him and kiss his ass.
So easy to pick out the parents who don’t care if their kids get life long health problems in this tweet!!
Doug does not care if kids get sick or hospitalized. Remember this in June!
Parents urge the teachers union to fill out report cards and allow kids to participate in extracurricular activities
“The number of children being admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 symptoms is spiking” - this isn’t a thing. Stop putting the responsibility on our kids. They aren’t at risk. Go away.
Too bad they didn’t do it 2 weeks ago.
No more masks! At least make it choice!!
Heck no ! I'm over with the mask shit I want to feel like myself again
Yick. Wouldn't want to work near dirty cloth masks that don't work
Ha ha ha not likely. Should of never started it ever. U wanna wear one feel free but no one should be forced to. Period
No more masks. Let it spread so we get natural immunity. Stay home if you are immune compromised until it happens.
Uhm NO
Kids don’t need to wear masks. Elderly and those with underlying health issues do. Just stop with this shit
As they provide no evidence . OntED Onpoli Covid: Evidence on face masks in schools 'inconclusive' The government admits the evidence for using masks in schools to reduce spread of Covid is 'not conclusive'.
All students in my kids elementary school still wear it without mandate
Quebec has mask mandates. Explain again how masking does a damn thing
Not required.
This is crazy!! kids are not at risk for this stupid Virus!! Stop trying to create fear in something that is nothing more than a cold!
School dropout Doug Ford knows nothing about schooling and what they need.
Listen people, if you want to ware your mask for the rest of your life it’s your choice, DONT talk on my behalf!! I followed guidelines for +2 years and ready to MOVE ON.. let me break it to you COVID IS HERE TO STAY. Don’t decide for me
Fire them all.
Current hospitalization rate/per province: BC: 1 in 15797 (mask mandate dropped 4 wks ago) Ontario: 1 in 12939 (mask mandate dropped 3 wks ago) Quebec: 1 in 5363 (mask mandate in place) I'll just leave this here
Unions LMAO, where teacher's can't opt out of paying union dues. All my children’s educators are extremely happy the students don't have masks on anymore 🙂
Some teachers are not fully vaccinated Just stop with the BS
Duh
Maks are not banned. Keep wearing them.
Question to all the mask lovers: when you are finished in the bathroom do you only wash your hands if the government mandates it?
It’s hilarious how all of the sucky babies that don’t want to wear masks come flying out of the wood work 🤣
Let’s go Union!
Hey! goofballs! Leave our kids alone!
My daughter will have a mental breakdown if she's forced to wear a mask again. Let the kids BREATHE!
🚮Teachers federation is only interested is there members and not the children gtfoh
April 8th 2021 (mask mandate) - 1417 hospitalized - 496 in ICU April 8th 2022 (no mask mandate) - 1135 hospitalized (55% for reasons other than covid - 135 in the ICU If school boards cannot figure this out in schools, heaven help the students.
Its useless.Masks dont help in it.
Will he listen!
Teacher's union 😅
Good!!!
Nooooooo
Teachers are the softest bunch around.
To all the 'masks don't work' crowd, my daughter's school had 3 cases throughout the entire year. Once mandates dropped they are averaging about 3 a day. Not sure why people can't even suffer the minor inconvenience of wearing one.
Major teachers union 🤦😂. They are science now?
Maybe 20% of the teachers at my school are wearing masks & that’s a generous estimate.
There are so many doctors in the comments it's unreal.
No one is stoping anyone from wearing a mask Always something
Good !!! ETFOeducators CUPEOntario
Nope.
Tell me why young kids need mask? They play together, they share everything etc… the kids should take the government to court for their breathing right. NO MASK ! NO MANDATE! Tell the union to get lost
Yes!
Again...
No need to mandate it. If you want to, wear a mask. Your protected. We do not need the government instruction on things that are common sense.
If teachers were that serious about, I would see widespread N95 use by all teachers that want this. But that is not the case for the majority of them. Also, ban students from eating in school while we are at it, because a room full of unmasked kids for 30 minutes is not safe.
Get over it.
F no
Hey teachers union pay attention.