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Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Oh please. The limiting factor in the schools was because teachers did not want to go back. Don’t give us that bullsh*t crap.

Teachers at home don’t set serve the vaccine now. Wait your damn turn like everyone else. Full Stop.

That is not true, at least not according to our principal. The limiting factor are the OSSE restrictions, limiting class size, requiring deep cleaning and distancing.

I don't believe that your principal had an interest in reopening in any real way. I have kids in 2 schools - one appears to have been able to accommodate nearly all of the demand for in person learning in some capacity. On the flip side, my other kid is at Deal - apparently there the principal told staff that they didn't have to come back unless they wanted to. So I believe your principal is telling you the story he/she wrote. They all got to write one for their school and teacher interest in working in person weighted differently in every single one. I hope DCPS is using this time to reflect on how this processed worked for letting each individual school decide how to reopen (highly unlikely) as they consider the next step and extending principal contracts. Poor Principal Trogisch should have rode this one out, he probably would have been just fine if he wasn't the squeaky wheel early on. Instead he became a sacrificial lamb.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Oh please. The limiting factor in the schools was because teachers did not want to go back. Don’t give us that bullsh*t crap.

Teachers at home don’t set serve the vaccine now. Wait your damn turn like everyone else. Full Stop.

That is not true, at least not according to our principal. The limiting factor are the OSSE restrictions, limiting class size, requiring deep cleaning and distancing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Oh please. The limiting factor in the schools was because teachers did not want to go back. Don’t give us that bullsh*t crap.

Teachers at home don’t set serve the vaccine now. Wait your damn turn like everyone else. Full Stop.

Typo deserve

Who the hell do you think you are that you think you're the arbiter of who does and doesn't "deserve" a vaccine? What a princess.

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Anonymous wrote:How would you know if a teacher has been vaccinated? It is a medical issue which is a private matter and violates HIPAA. I really hope schools are not announcing that teachers are vaccinated.

Sigh. HIPPA doesn’t apply to schools.

A teacher's health issues are not for public consumption. So yes, it does apply. Everyone does not qualify for the the vaccine and the reasons why are not a public matter.

No, it does not apply. See #1.

https://www.frontlineeducation.com/blog/top-5-ferpa-hipaa-misconceptions-for-schools/

It doesn’t matter if it’s FERPA, HIPPA or some other acronym. The school is NOT going to tell you which teachers have received the vaccine. They can’t.

Of course they can't tell you that, but it does matter when people constantly misquote the law. Misinformation spreads. See also: The millions of people convinced that they don't have to wear a mask when there's a mask mandate because "OMG the ADA!!!"

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Do you actually think that DC should have set aside enough of its allocation of doses to offer vaccines to all DCPS teachers during February thereby taking it away from frontline workers and residents 65+ just so virtual teachers could sit it out at home?

GMAFB, the entitlement is stunning. BTW, the choice is there now, sorry teachers are going to have to go through the vaccinate DC process like everybody else instead of the Children's program which by the way was handled beautifully. Plus free soup from Jose Andres and trip to/from Dunbar via Uber; I feel like I hit the lottery with the vaccine and appreciated for volunteering to return in person.

+1

I am a teacher who would go back in person, but wasn’t given the option. I do not think we deserve the vaccine for sitting at home for a year. Have I been working? Yes. Have I been at risk of COVID? No. Teachers are incredibly lucky that we could stay home- the vaccine should go to those who have been working in person for months and the vulnerable among our communities. Teachers sound so out of touch with this situation.

Anonymous wrote:In Maryland, all teachers are able to get vaccinated now whether they're in person or not. Actually, even DC teachers can get vaccinated in Maryland if they live in Maryland. So I would say DC teachers are not prioritized although the ones working in person are.

If you take health care workers, for example. You're eligible even if you're only meeting with patients over the internet and are never around members of the public.

This is not true in DC- healthcare workers who are not seeing patients are not supposed to get the vaccine. It is self certification but there isn’t much stopping them.

Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Do you actually think that DC should have set aside enough of its allocation of doses to offer vaccines to all DCPS teachers during February thereby taking it away from frontline workers and residents 65+ just so virtual teachers could sit it out at home?

GMAFB, the entitlement is stunning. BTW, the choice is there now, sorry teachers are going to have to go through the vaccinate DC process like everybody else instead of the Children's program which by the way was handled beautifully. Plus free soup from Jose Andres and trip to/from Dunbar via Uber; I feel like I hit the lottery with the vaccine and appreciated for volunteering to return in person.

PP again - it please keep in mind that the philosophy of waiting to open more seats until there is greater uptake across all wards in an attempt to prevent the achievement gap from opening is counterproductive in the long run. Meanwhile largely white private schools are humming along...

PP here - the precursor to the above would be to a vaccine PR campaign targeted towards the population of adults who are fearful of the vaccine. Uptake on the offer above could still be anemic without trust in the safety of the vaccine. I think dcps won’t open more seats UNLESS uptake on them is more evenly spread over all races of students. They have worked hard in recent years to close the achievement gap and don’t want to see that widen.

I worry that DCPS won’t push for more classrooms to open in 4th term because uptake on in person for 3rd term was anemic at schools with large African American populations. More children throughout the city, of every race, creed and stripe, are in desperate need of a return. Dcps should act NOW to survey families again to see whether, IF any extra vulnerable adults in the household could be vaccinated, they would send their child back. Then, vaccinate those households and enough teachers to cover the demand ASAP. Adding the limiting factor of adults in households with school-age children who have documented vulnerability could make the numbers more reasonable. Perhaps if the number of students from ALL wards willing to go back increases DCPS will push for more seats in term 4.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Oh please. The limiting factor in the schools was because teachers did not want to go back. Don’t give us that bullsh*t crap.

Teachers at home don’t set serve the vaccine now. Wait your damn turn like everyone else. Full Stop.

Typo deserve

Anonymous wrote:Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Oh please. The limiting factor in the schools was because teachers did not want to go back. Don’t give us that bullsh*t crap.

Teachers at home don’t set serve the vaccine now. Wait your damn turn like everyone else. Full Stop.

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t all teachers required to get the vaccine? And why didn’t DC got prioritize teachers in early Jan? I don’t understand how the Union is still fighting in person teaching if a vaccine is available.

Because there are teachers that have accommodations that will allow them to continue working remotely. Teachers returning in person were prioritized for the vaccine; everyone else is still working at home. Reserving vaccines for all teachers is not equal to all of them returning in person, at least not in the immediate future.

No teachers were not prioritized. If they were, they would have started vaccinations the first week in Jan. Instead, DCPS started the last week of Jan and opened schools the next week. And many teachers did not get a second vaccine on MOnday like DCPS announced. I my kids teachers say they cant get if for at least another week

It’s rich claiming they’re not prioritized when they’re eligible and DC has vaccinated less than 5% of residents. The rest of us are here, mostly without a vaccine and no date for when we’ll become eligible.

You read the stats wrong in the WaPo article. You are quoting the National rate. DC has vaccinated 39% of priority pop and 15% total population. We are ranked last in anything. Maybe you are reading the WashTimes?

Sadly DCPS teachers who are not in person, be it due to medical reasons, principal decision, or lack of students, were not able to get the vaccine in February. It was irresponsible and deliberate that DCPS gave IPL teachers their first shot the week before schools reopened. At least this Tuesday was all virtual due to the side effects of the second dose. Term 4 is coming sooner than you think. Schools could open more classrooms if the numbers keep going down and the weather improves. All DCPS teachers and staff should be given the choice to be vaccinated. Like now!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you know if a teacher has been vaccinated? It is a medical issue which is a private matter and violates HIPAA. I really hope schools are not announcing that teachers are vaccinated.

Sigh. HIPPA doesn’t apply to schools.

A teacher's health issues are not for public consumption. So yes, it does apply. Everyone does not qualify for the the vaccine and the reasons why are not a public matter.

No, it does not apply. See #1.

https://www.frontlineeducation.com/blog/top-5-ferpa-hipaa-misconceptions-for-schools/

It doesn’t matter if it’s FERPA, HIPPA or some other acronym. The school is NOT going to tell you which teachers have received the vaccine. They can’t.