vaccinating teachers who aren't in person yet
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Anonymous
It doesn’t matter if it’s FERPA, HIPPA or some other acronym. The school is NOT going to tell you which teachers have received the vaccine. They can’t. |
Anonymous
| Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now! |
Anonymous
You read the stats wrong in the WaPo article. You are quoting the National rate. DC has vaccinated 39% of priority pop and 15% total population. We are ranked last in anything. Maybe you are reading the WashTimes? |
Anonymous
Oh please. The limiting factor in the schools was because teachers did not want to go back. Don’t give us that bullsh*t crap. Teachers at home don’t set serve the vaccine now. Wait your damn turn like everyone else. Full Stop. |
Anonymous
Typo deserve |
Anonymous
| I worry that DCPS won’t push for more classrooms to open in 4th term because uptake on in person for 3rd term was anemic at schools with large African American populations. More children throughout the city, of every race, creed and stripe, are in desperate need of a return. Dcps should act NOW to survey families again to see whether, IF any extra vulnerable adults in the household could be vaccinated, they would send their child back. Then, vaccinate those households and enough teachers to cover the demand ASAP. Adding the limiting factor of adults in households with school-age children who have documented vulnerability could make the numbers more reasonable. Perhaps if the number of students from ALL wards willing to go back increases DCPS will push for more seats in term 4. |
Anonymous
| PP here - the precursor to the above would be to a vaccine PR campaign targeted towards the population of adults who are fearful of the vaccine. Uptake on the offer above could still be anemic without trust in the safety of the vaccine. I think dcps won’t open more seats UNLESS uptake on them is more evenly spread over all races of students. They have worked hard in recent years to close the achievement gap and don’t want to see that widen. |
Anonymous
| PP again - it please keep in mind that the philosophy of waiting to open more seats until there is greater uptake across all wards in an attempt to prevent the achievement gap from opening is counterproductive in the long run. Meanwhile largely white private schools are humming along... |
Anonymous
Do you actually think that DC should have set aside enough of its allocation of doses to offer vaccines to all DCPS teachers during February thereby taking it away from frontline workers and residents 65+ just so virtual teachers could sit it out at home? GMAFB, the entitlement is stunning. BTW, the choice is there now, sorry teachers are going to have to go through the vaccinate DC process like everybody else instead of the Children's program which by the way was handled beautifully. Plus free soup from Jose Andres and trip to/from Dunbar via Uber; I feel like I hit the lottery with the vaccine and appreciated for volunteering to return in person. |
Anonymous
This is not true in DC- healthcare workers who are not seeing patients are not supposed to get the vaccine. It is self certification but there isn’t much stopping them. |
Anonymous
+1 I am a teacher who would go back in person, but wasn’t given the option. I do not think we deserve the vaccine for sitting at home for a year. Have I been working? Yes. Have I been at risk of COVID? No. Teachers are incredibly lucky that we could stay home- the vaccine should go to those who have been working in person for months and the vulnerable among our communities. Teachers sound so out of touch with this situation. |
Anonymous
Of course they can't tell you that, but it does matter when people constantly misquote the law. Misinformation spreads. See also: The millions of people convinced that they don't have to wear a mask when there's a mask mandate because "OMG the ADA!!!" 
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Anonymous
Who the hell do you think you are that you think you're the arbiter of who does and doesn't "deserve" a vaccine? What a princess. |
Anonymous
That is not true, at least not according to our principal. The limiting factor are the OSSE restrictions, limiting class size, requiring deep cleaning and distancing. |
Anonymous
I don't believe that your principal had an interest in reopening in any real way. I have kids in 2 schools - one appears to have been able to accommodate nearly all of the demand for in person learning in some capacity. On the flip side, my other kid is at Deal - apparently there the principal told staff that they didn't have to come back unless they wanted to. So I believe your principal is telling you the story he/she wrote. They all got to write one for their school and teacher interest in working in person weighted differently in every single one. I hope DCPS is using this time to reflect on how this processed worked for letting each individual school decide how to reopen (highly unlikely) as they consider the next step and extending principal contracts. Poor Principal Trogisch should have rode this one out, he probably would have been just fine if he wasn't the squeaky wheel early on. Instead he became a sacrificial lamb. |