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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?![/quote]
Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher? [/quote]

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it. [/quote]
Than it may be time for you to retire, or find another line of work. The virus is going to stay with us; we're not going to eradicate it, ever. If being in a public-facing job is too dangerous for you in that context, you will need to do something else. The vaccine is it, there's nothing else coming along to provide a better level of protection.

Honest question- if you really can't go back into your workplace safely, do you believe you deserve to continue to draw a salary from that employer? [/quote]

Some will. But also school systems will adapt with the help of technology and social demand. Two of my kids had a public school music teacher with a limb difference. 20 years ago, she would not have had the option to teach. Then technology bridged the gap. If COVID is here to stay, so are people including students who won’t be sufficiently protected by the virus. It makes sense for school systems to at least try to fill virtual positions with immune impaired teachers.

But also, some teachers will recover from cancer or doctors will develop better vaccines. No need for anyone to leave teaching right now if they don’t want to.

In the end though, you don’t get to decide if someone else’s employer pays them. The employer gets to define duties and how they are done. If a school system defines Zoom instruction as a satisfactory method, the teacher gets paid. Certainly public employees in many fields are being paid to telecommute. I might have an issue with exactly how Helen at the MVA is working from home, but I don’t tell her to quit and I don’t think I get to tell her what she deserves if her boss is satisfied. And, no, you aren’t the boss of teachers.[/quote]

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