COVID-19 variant of concern in their school.Staff at James Ardiel Elementary held a walk before classes started, calling for masks to be mandated in elementary schools, even inside classrooms.Five cohorts at the school are now isolating due to the virus exposure.“That’s got to make everyone feel nervous, depressed, so they want to express their spirit as teachers and come together outside the school and go in together at the same moment,” Julia MacRae, first vice-president of the Surrey Teachers’ Association, told Global News Friday.MacRae said current health guidelines indicate kindergarten to Grade 4 students do not have to wear masks in schools and she said they don’t understand how that can be the case when schools want to take every.