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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers can only go after 3 pm and on Wednesdays (but then DCUM will say they are on a paid vacation); Saturday and Sunday.

Teachers haven't been eligible since vaxes were open - that was only random to teachers who said they would go back.

Our teachers didn't get a link or anything from DCPS but searched and got their own.  So yeah its sad how the city has treated them.[/quote]

It was NOT random. DCPS sent out orders to return to IPL to just under 3000 DCPS personnel in January (teachers and support staff). DC made EXACTLY the number of vaccines available as people ordered to return and set up dedicated places for the vaccinations. Just under 70% of the vaccines were claimed. Other DCPS personnel did not then get an opportunity to get vaccinated because they were categorically not returning at that point in time and generally were actively protesting against returning to in person. It made no sense to vaccine a healthy 30 year old teacher when a frail 70 year old man with cancer or heart disease was still waiting for a vaccine. Remember a teacher over 65 or whatever the age cutoff is or that has a health condition that makes them vulnerable has been eligible for a long time. So they limited any additional vaccines to teachers who could provide proof that they were returning in person. Shocker is no additional teachers could do that because they were still refusing and schools were still under the restraints of DC Health that wasn’t going to allow for an expansion in term 4. Once DC Health guidance was updated and more of the most vulnerable of DC were vaccinated, they updated the eligibility to allow for all DCPS teachers regardless of coming back. Now a 30 year old healthy teacher who refuses to leave his/her home for irrational fear of covid and categorically refuses to return to in person learning for the rest of the year can go get vaccinated, while there are still many elderly and/or individuals with comorbidities for covid that are still trying to get a vaccine. Really effing fair. The amount of respect lost for teachers is paramount. [/quote]

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