A Rotorua school principal has described the difficult decision to roster specific year groups home due to increasing staff illness as a "last resort".
Rotorua Lakes High School principal Jon Ward told the Rotorua Daily Post on Wednesday about ten staff were off sick with Covid-19 and other illnesses.
All of the school's usual relievers were also unwell or overseas which put him in a "difficult position", he said.
The school had made the call to roster Year 10 students home today and Year 9 students on Friday.
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