DC Independent School Teachers not eligible for COVID vaccine on Jan 25.

[Anonymous]

Wait, so daycare center employees are not on the list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just announced by OSSE today. They are giving priority to DCPS and charter school employees and independent school teachers are not eligible in this round. Which is complete BULLSHIT because we have been the ones going in person and risking our health to educate kids while public school teachers stay home.

I am LIVID.

You are voluntarily choosing to go in person and have been doing it all along. The priority is to get kids back to school who aren't in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since the pandemic began, there have been posters on this board who have outlined all the reasons that it is safe or safer for private schools to open: smaller class sizes, more resources to devote to deep cleaning, modern facilities/HVAC, extensive outdoor opportunities, students more likely to comply with social distancing/mask requirements, doctors and public health officials on the board of trustees. So maybe those are reasons that independent school teachers are less at risk. I don’t know, but maybe.

How can they be at less risk than people who are teaching remotely?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just announced by OSSE today. They are giving priority to DCPS and charter school employees and independent school teachers are not eligible in this round. Which is complete BULLSHIT because we have been the ones going in person and risking our health to educate kids while public school teachers stay home.

I am LIVID.

You are voluntarily choosing to go in person and have been doing it all along. The priority is to get kids back to school who aren't in school.

"Voluntarily." Ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so daycare center employees are not on the list?

Nope.

[Anonymous]

If you live in VA or MD and are a teacher can't you get it now?

[Anonymous]

Hahahahaha

I’m not sure what you say is accurate.

But if so, it makes me laugh.

I hope the schools won’t be able to buy their way out of this but I doubt it

I fully support prioritizing public school teachers

[Anonymous]

Beauvior apparently has bought its way to vax!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just announced by OSSE today. They are giving priority to DCPS and charter school employees and independent school teachers are not eligible in this round. Which is complete BULLSHIT because we have been the ones going in person and risking our health to educate kids while public school teachers stay home.

I am LIVID.

You are voluntarily choosing to go in person and have been doing it all along. The priority is to get kids back to school who aren't in school.

Ridiculous!! They are volunteering just as much as the doctors and nurses and grocery store workers are volunteering to go back to work. They (or I should say we) go back to work because we feel it is our duty to do so. I'm a doctor and have had my 2 shots of Pfizer vaccine. Now I go into work less scared. Of course these teachers are also frontline workers, similar to the doctors and nurses and grocery store workers and restaurant workers. They are the heroes, taking a risk so kids can be in school, and not hiding behind their union and computer screen in the comfort of there home. They definitely deserve to be vaccinated before the DCPS teachers.

[Anonymous]

their ^^

[Anonymous]

I am a private school teacher and was also really bummed out about this, mostly because they initially said all teachers/school staff and didn’t specify only public school teachers. I mean it makes sense as These are the institutions the mayor controls and her big goal is to get them opened, but still. I am hoping once they vaccinate the public teachers they will open it up to us when they do daycare workers, but I am not holding my breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so daycare center employees are not on the list?

Nope.

That is horrifying!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beauvior apparently has bought its way to vax!

How? Through their concierge doctor advisors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hahahahaha

I’m not sure what you say is accurate.

But if so, it makes me laugh.

I hope the schools won’t be able to buy their way out of this but I doubt it

I fully support prioritizing public school teachers

Wow, laughing at people risking their health to educate your children.

You’re a terrible human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you live in VA or MD and are a teacher can't you get it now?

Yes.