In terms of vaccination, the board isn’t asking staff or students to provide that information, but will comply with anything the public health unit mandates, said La Touche. The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health Unit is the only health unit so far that has posted the vaccination rates of students per school. In the Peel District School Board, three schools started up again Wednesday, including Roberta Bondar Public School, Ray Lawson Public School and Tony Pontes Public School. Prachi Srivastava, an associate professor at Western University who specializes in education, said vaccination of staff should be mandatory at Ontario’s public schools. “You want to keep those cohorts as small as possible,” she said, adding there is not enough in the ministry plan about reducing capacity.

Source: thestar August 04, 2021 23:13 UTC