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Teachers seek urgent talks with NSW government on school safety amid Omicron surge
Teachers’ union warns absentee rates could cause chaos, with vaccination levels among children lower than adults
The New South Wales teachers’ union has called for an urgent meeting with health and education officials to discuss safety at the onset of the new school year amid the growing Covid-19 outbreak in the state.
The NSW Teachers Federation president, Angelo Gavrielatos, warned absentee rates could cause chaos and said “serious questions” about safety needed to be answered before students returned to classrooms in early February.
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