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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Sorry, but there are articles in the news every day about how it’s wrong to force remote workers back at this time, how remote work is here to stay, how employers should be enticing people to come back to offices. It’s time for everyone to get back in there, then! Teachers are not going to shrug and accept a higher risk level than other workers with comparable levels of education, for less compensation. Society is going to have to figure that one out. Meanwhile, we’ll keep making the best decisions for ourselves and our own families. [/quote]

I can’t believe it’s may 2021 and you are still pulling that line out. it’s over, done. you are going back to the classroom in the fall. there may be a very, very few teachers who qualify for medical exemptions, but they’ll have to be reassigned to non-teaching jobs. [/quote]

You are assuming this —even as major districts are scrambling to put virtual programs in place for students who need or want them. It’s silly to think that a district would reassign disabled teachers to non-teaching jobs and then reassign non-disabled teachers to teach virtually. [/quote]

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