Forum Index
»
DC Public and Public Charter Schools
Why not vaccinate all the teachers and be done with this ongoing drama?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
1. I didn't list daycare workers but since you wanna talk about the birth-3 have a low chance of covid but ok. 2. Sorry your friend works in a fake grocery store. From whole foods to aldi they have barriers between customers and don't let them in without a mask. They limit the amount of people at once...causing the store to have you guessed it more space. You know what's insulting? The fact that you want to say teachers are essential NOW. Too little and definitely too late. Stop acting as if you know my situation, I don't care about yours and you don't care about mine. |
Anonymous
| Ugh, the same poster posts in every thread as though “essential worker” has some magic meaning it’s “too late” to assign to teachers now. |
Anonymous
| School opening is not based off teachers getting vaccinated. |
Anonymous
On some level, that’s more rational than many of defenses put forward. But that’s also the same position the 65% of DC’s workforce already working in person is in. It was only the “oh the germy kids” concerns now exposed as untrue that made teachers somehow more at risk. It is amazing the the Mayors weakness on this point have allowed teachers to just opt out of their jobs for 10 months while everyone else went back in DC, as well as most other teachers around the country went back with far higher COvID rates. Hold the line Mayor Bowser. You have the chance to salvage this. |
Anonymous
Then what is it based on? |
Anonymous
In person starts before most teachers get their first vaccine and before all get their second and a chance for immunity to build. Also, hospital capacity is nearing 90%. Get comfy with the idea that if you get covid from your kid or hit by a car and need to go to the hospital your likely going to a crappy one far away. I agree with OP. What’s a month? Probably saving us from a surge we can’t handle snd hospital staff making decisions they don’t want. |
Anonymous
In person follows all teachers who were returning in person and opted in getting their first vaccine. Fixed that for you. |
Anonymous
You said “none of them” are in a classroom with children whose parents you don’t trust. You did not exclude daycare workers. Who, as we know, absolutely are in the same position as teachers and are going in. Oh, so 0-3 is “safe”? First of all, no it’s not— many of the people I know who have gotten Covid have gotten it from daycare. Also, do 3 year olds magically become infectious if they make the cut-off for PK in DCPS? So 3 yr olds attending daycare are not a risk, but 3 yr olds attending PK are? Lady, you are telling on yourself. My friend works in a real grocery store, thanks. Yes, they have a mask requirement and plastic barriers, just like schools! They are supposed to limit the number of people coming in, and they used to, but my friend has told me the store is packed during evening rush now and they stopped staffing someone at the door to manage crowds. Unlike a school where you will never have more than the same group of assigned students in the room. The ridiculous thing about this argument is that you think you are arguing against some entitled, teacher-hating, “open schools now” parent. And you are making these desperate nonsensical arguments that any policy maker would dismiss in a heartbeat. But actually I’m a parent who is very worried about in person starting 2/1, worried for the teachers at my school, and not sending my kid. I am committed to a safe in-person environment for teachers, staff and kids and I don’t think that can be done with numbers as they are and new strains emerging. I’m actually on your side. But the arguments you are making are bad. They aren’t true, and they make people mad. They make me mad, and I’m on your side! Because they are insulting and they privilege teachers above so many other essential workers. It’s stuff like this that is alienating parents and contributing to this dysfunctional environment. You are hurting your own cause. |
Anonymous
The problem with a month is that a month from now there will be another reason that the teachers union wants to wait another month. At that point, whatever the new thing is will seem as scary to you as what you fear today (that's not supported by the available data). It's been going on all year. |
Anonymous
Actually covid does have more of a risk than the flu to result in a music c reaction. My kid has had one from the flu. This year covid is far more rampant than covid. My decision should be different than yours. I’m just suggesting their should be options for this school year. Our ped said a vac for kids 10+ should be available by late spring and kids 5+ end of summer. People including children with intellectual disabilities are far more likely to die from covid (more than twice as much). Simply not true for the flu. |
Anonymous
They've already started this argument. I've seen MULTIPLE posts on here from teachers stating that they won't go back until all the kids are vaccinated as well.... |
Anonymous
| So fire them. Kids may not be vaccinated until the late fall. The WTU is holding DC children hostage and deserves to pay. Union intransigence is starting to give DC bad press not only locally and regionally, but nationally and internationally. Enough already. |
Anonymous
Trials have not started in kids under 12. The FDA will likely not issue an EUA for kids. Kids will not be vaccinated by "late fall". It will likely be years. |
Anonymous
It’s an anon site. How do you know they are teachers? How do you know I’m not a pissed off 16 year old laughing because mom can’t hack it? You are adorable |
Anonymous
It’s based on the term 3 start date. DCPS is so married to this idea that opening and closings work on their calendar. The virus is very excited about this. Once more teachers are properly vaccinated more kids could come back but DCPS won’t entertain until term 4 because no one knows but DCPS has to DCPS |