vaccinating teachers who aren't in person yet
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Anonymous
| Why aren’t all teachers required to get the vaccine? And why didn’t DC got prioritize teachers in early Jan? I don’t understand how the Union is still fighting in person teaching if a vaccine is available. |
Anonymous
| To the PP: I am a DCPS teacher who has remained at home and has not been offered the vaccine. DCPS only offered vaccines to teachers who returned first week of February. They got the second shot yesterday or will get it tomorrow. DCPS has said nothing about the rest of us, when or even if we will get a vaccine in the coming weeks so that more teachers could be ready for term 4. |
Anonymous
You can’t require a vaccine that was approved by emergency authorization. It’s why hospitals and other healthcare providers can’t require it yet. |
Anonymous
| Can’t fight stupid. Legally. |
Anonymous
Because there are teachers that have accommodations that will allow them to continue working remotely. Teachers returning in person were prioritized for the vaccine; everyone else is still working at home. Reserving vaccines for all teachers is not equal to all of them returning in person, at least not in the immediate future. |
Anonymous
| My friend works in DCPS, does not want to teach in person even after the vaccine and just got her second dose. |
Anonymous
Why doesn’t she want to return? I am struggling to understand. |
Anonymous
It's not hard to understand at all. First, being fully vaccinated significantly reduces risks, but it does not eliminate them, especially the risk of passing it on to a family member. Second, if given the option, very few people would choose to give up work from home, pandemic or not. Whether the school should accede to her desire is a separate issue of why she wants it. |
Anonymous
I hope this is right. This is what should be happening. The teachers who are willing to go back in person should get vaccinated. The ones who are going to be teaching remotely should not get vaccine prioritization based on teaching remotely. |
Anonymous
That’s not true about the vaccine. The second dose is today 2/15 or 2/20. There is no way she could have already gotten the second dose based on your post. You are a troll trying to start more anti-teacher posts. |
Anonymous
In my DS DCPS school the teachers who are going in person plus most of the admin got the second dose of the vaccine last week. |
Anonymous
Incorrect. |
Anonymous
| Agree that the pp is a troll. All the IPL ppl at my school got their 2nd dose today. There’s a reason school is virtual tomorrow. |
Anonymous
Teachers should take the vaccine and teach in schools. If they choose not to take the vaccine, they should be available to teach kids that choose not to come back to school remotely if there is such a job available or they should be terminated. People that work in grocery stores have to work in person as do doctor, dentists, police, and on and on and on. Teaching children (K-12) is an in person job. I have sympathy and support distance learning when necessary but now that there is a vaccine my sympathy is gone. My sympathy is for the kids that need to be taught in person. I am willing to go back to my job with a vaccine even though I like working from home. My job can be done remotely and it may not make sense for me to go back, but if it were better to do in person I would. I don't care if teachers like working from home, they should then fine a work from home profession. |
Anonymous
| Teachers who are currently not in person but have committed to coming back to school in Term 4 have not yet been vaccinated. They need to be prioritized asap so we can open up more classrooms. |