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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was told that vaccines don’t matter and schools are safe.  Why does vaccination rates matter if schools were safe in August 2020 before the vaccine?[/quote]

I was told that teachers should only return to in-person teaching when they are vaccinated.....#Onlywhenitssafe[/quote]

Vaccine is available.  They can take it or not.  It’s safe.  Vaccinations don’t matter for schools to open. [/quote]

I mean, the powers that be did not agree with this and kept school buildings closed for a year and a half because of it.  Why would they change their minds now?  Teachers argued that schools were definitely not safe.[/quote]

Doesn’t matter what teachers think. School is safe. Why are parents now concerned with vaccine rate. School is safe.  It was safe before the vaccine and it’s safe now. [/quote]

Did you believe school was safe before?  Did you argue vociferously that it was, with your school's principal?  Did you write to your representatives in government and the various agencies in charge of making the decisions to open school buildings?  If you are an educator, did you argue with WTU (if you are in DCPS) that teachers should teach in person immediately? [/quote]

Actually yes I did.  I wrote to all of my kids teachers showing research and telling them it was safe. I wrote to every council member and Dr Nesbit monthly.  I emailed the local news stations.  I emailed all of the deputy chancellors and Ferebee every other month.  I emailed OSSE every month.  I had signs out in my front yard in NW saying it was safe to open schools.  I’m not sure why you accuse me of not doing enough.  Did you do as much as me?  Did you work as tirelessly as I did to reopen?

I don’t care about vaccination rates.  It’s safe. And if you all get caught up in this argument you are reinforcing the fact that it was “unsafe” before vaccination. It doesn’t matter how many teachers have the shots.  It didn’t matter before and it doesn’t matter now. [/quote]

NP. Thank you for your advocacy. I agree with you that schools were safe before vaccines and should have been open, but now that we do have extremely effective vaccines, they could obviously be even safer. So while I would still send my too young to be vaccinated kids even if none of the teachers were vaccinated, I absolutely think that the pressure on teachers should be immense to get their shots. That doesn’t mean they have to disclose their status to individual parents, but they should have to disclose it to their employer, and it would be nice if the employer could mandate it. It’s simply not true that vaccination rates of teachers don’t matter at all. If nothing else, they matter to reduce the chances of quarantines. All that said, I don’t think this is an issue at our Upper NW school, where I believe the vast majority of the teachers are vaccinated.[/quote]

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