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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The devil is in the details though. It is nice to have a mandate but who is going to follow up with teachers and staff. Will vaccine cards be checked or do folks just have to say whether they are vaccinated or not. Who is going to be checking in weekly regarding unvaccinated folks getting their tests, etc. That is a lot of follow up work. And principals will be reluctant to fire teachers mid-year given the teacher shortage. They will be stuck with a substitute all year. Not saying it isn’t a good first step though [/quote]

You are right, definitely a good first step. It is more work but the more people who are vaccinated, the fewer quarantines and COVID-related outages there will be. I work in a school and the follow-up work from quarantines and infected staff is a lot too. More vaccinations will cut down on that. My understanding is that fully vaccinated staff have to upload their vaccination card and they will get a "time off" award of 8 hours.[/quote]

That’s correct. I’m staff (not a teacher) and I got an extra day off as soon as I uploaded my card. (I mean, I would have done the vaccine regardless given that I have chronic asthma and high blood pressure and didn’t want to have a potentially debilitating or fatal disease that I could easily prevent by having a rather painless vaccine - I had very mild side effects after both shots but honestly way better than the flu shot side effects I’ve experienced in the past.) I have one colleague with a genuine medical exemption, but religious exemptions are a bunch of malarkey. Parents pull those out all the time when they’re told their kids can’t come to school without their vaccines; all of a sudden, their religion forbids immunization against measles. 🙄 New York State did away with those a while ago; wish we’d do the same. [/quote]

I don’t know if that’s true for adult employees but it is definitely true for students. And if they won’t vaccinate their kids, it seems likely they haven’t gotten vaccinated themselves and there you go, there’s your community spread. I think parents concerned about teacher and staff vaccinations should press the City Council to eliminate religious exemptions for student immunizations too. I don’t live in DC so I can’t do this as a citizen but it makes no sense to me that kids can go ahead and come to school without shots for highly contagious diseases like measles because their parents filled out a very basic piece of paper.

So all anyone has to do to get a religious exemption is to say my religion opposes vaccination? I’m not sure anything more than that is required [/quote][/quote]

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