Even After Cutting in Line for Vaccines, Teachers won t Return to Work | Opinion Jason Rantz
, Host, the Jason Rantz Show On 3/10/21 at 6:30 AM EST
Teachers across the country continue to fail your children. Leaning on unsubstantiated COVID-related fears and exploiting a pandemic for personal and professional gain, teachers still refuse to return to classrooms despite, in some cases, cutting the line for a vaccine.
It s time for parents to speak up in a collective voice to pressure teachers to get back to work or face losing their jobs or their early vaccine access.
Last week, Washington governor Jay Inslee announced teachers would qualify earlier than they were supposed to for vaccine access. In other words, all the talk about equity doesn t extend to the elderly; a young, tech-savvy teacher with easy access to the internet can get a vaccine they don t yet need while seniors struggle to log into the confusing websites to find out where vaccines are available