Democratic governors may be suddenly willing to reopen their economies now that President Joe Biden has been safely sworn in, but it appears that the nation’s teachers unions are not yet done leveraging the crisis for their own political advantage.
In Fairfax County, Virginia, the local teachers union has demanded that teachers and students alike be vaccinated against the coronavirus before anyone can return to school.
However, as teachers receive vaccinations while claiming they are “essential workers,” they’re still refusing to do said “essential” work and continuing to delay the opening of the schools. What’s more, new data, albeit from Europe, indicates it may not even be unusually risky for them to be in the classroom in the first place.
While Fairfax Education Association President Kimberly Adams said at a Jan. 21 school board meeting that she’d received her first vaccination dose on Jan. 14, she’s also reportedly indicated that her union doesn’t even support a return to full-time education … in the fall.
So why, then, has she been vaccinated?
And why is the union insisting that students also be vaccinated when no current vaccines have even been approved for children younger than 14?
Writing for The Washington Post, Fairfax County parent Rory Cooper argued that teachers need to make a choice: Either return to school or forsake priority vaccination.
“There is simply no common-sense explanation for vaccinating teachers ahead of other high-risk groups if they refuse to return to full-time in-person learning. The simple truth is...
