Teacher reprimanded for yelling at health workers at school COVID vaccine clinic

A teacher in the B.C. Interior has been reprimanded by the provincial regulator for yelling at health workers about his objections to a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at his school.

Patrick James Nelson signed a consent resolution agreement with the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation that was posted on Tuesday.

In it, he admitted to confronting the workers at a vaccine clinic in the cafeteria of the school where he works on Oct. 6, 2021. The clinic had been set up by School District No. 82 and Interior Health to vaccinate any students legally allowed to make the decision for themselves.

Nelson left the class he was teaching on their own to go to the cafeteria, “where he angrily interrupted and disrupted the vaccination clinic with students present,” according to the resolution.

“Nelson addressed health authority staff in a raised and angry voice.”