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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how does it help to know if 64% or whatever of DCPS teachers are vaccinated if you don't know how many at you kid's school are? and even if you knew that 93% at your kid's school were vaccinated, what if their teacher were in the 7% that wasn't?[/quote]

because this is about overall numbers not personal risk assessment. hopefully DCPS can identify any populations or schools that need more outreach - eg I suspect rates are much lower among staff v teachers. If 50% of DCPS adults are vaccinated then that indicates that mandator vax might be necessary even if some schools are 90%. if DCPS overall is 80% then maybe targeted outreach is better. [/quote]

But if it's about how DCPS should do outreach, why would it need to be made public?[/quote]

because parents have a right to know, as do teachers and staff members who want to know their workplace is vaccinated. [/quote]

NP but I will go back to a PP’s argument-  as a teacher if I hear that 60% of DCPS teachers are vaccinated that doesn’t actually tell me anything about my specific workplace.  It’s not like all DCPS teachers work in the same building.  That number also might make parents anxious when it turns out their individual school has 85% vaccination rate or something like that.

Here’s what I imagine might happen: DCPS releases the rates (let’s say 60%).  Some LSATs freak out because parents freak out and start to want to know specific data about their school or teachers.  [/quote]

It's hard to respond to things as I'm not sure what/why things are getting deleted.

I wrote this earlier but it was deleted:

If I know that 60% of teachers/staff are vaccinated that gives me an understanding about a number of things regarding educating my child at DCPS.  It starts as a probability of vaccination for the individual teachers my kids have.  If only 60% of staff/teachers are vaccinated overall, that gives me a starting place to realizing that there's a good chance (like 40%, without other information) that my kids' teachers aren't vaccinated.  So I can operate with that information, which is pertinent to the risk my child will face from in-person schooling.  It tells me a number of other things as well, most of which have been discussed above (if they haven't been deleted).  If 95% of teachers/staff are vaccinated, I'm going to feel far better about the risks to my kid, and I'm also going to believe other things (that have been discussed above).

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