A private school in Florida (of course!) is actually barring vaccinated teachers from interacting with students. The school fees are pretty high which shows that this school caters to the high income and high wealth population.
A Miami school has discouraged teachers from getting the Covid vaccine, saying any vaccinated employees will be barred from interacting with students.
Centner Academy leadership cited debunked claims of non-vaccinated people being “negatively impacted” by contact with vaccinated people.
…The Centner Academy, a fee-paying school, is located in Miami’s Design District. Annual tuition begins at $15,160 (£10,898) for pre-school students and goes up to nearly $30,000 for middle school students, who are around 13-15 years old.
Co-founder Leila Centner informed parents on Monday that, when possible, the academy’s policy is to not employ anyone who has received a Covid-19 vaccine at this time, CBS Miami reported.
…Mrs Centner also repeated a false claim of vaccinated individuals affecting unvaccinated people, saying three women in the school’s community had their menstrual cycles “impacted after having spent time with a vaccinated person”.
There is no scientific evidence for these claims. None of the coronavirus vaccines approved for emergency in the US have been linked to infertility, miscarriages or any other negative changes to women’s reproductive health.
Mrs Centner and her husband David Centner have described themselves as “health freedom advocates”, providing guidance for parents at the Centner Academy to file for exemptions from vaccine requirements in the past.
One wonders what parents think of this terrible policy that is deliberately putting people at risk.
Considering the school is explicitly talking about ‘health freedom’ and said it has been telling parents how to lie and get vaccine exemptions for their children, I suspect most of the parents of children at the school are perfectly fine with it… they’re the specific clientele the school is going for: the ‘You can’t tell me what to do!’ folks who have lots of money and already think the government and the public school system are evil.
Agreeing with jenorafeuer -- this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
I’m trying to imagine paying $30,000 so that my kid can be around a lot of unvaccinated adults who will spread an illness to their students, including my kid.
But, I am not succeeding.
I wouldn’t pay that much to send a kid to a normal, safe, school, let alone one so over-priced that your case of COVID can cost a year’s middle-class income. After all, most of us get our COVID infections for free.
Florida. Why is it always Florida?
This story made the morning email from Science today.
Any firings or job penalties on this absurd basis can definitely be challenged as spurious. Hopefully the teachers are able to afford a lawyer… maybe if they pool together?
“No scientific evidence for these claims” rather understates how stupid they are. Thinking that a vaccine can cause menstrual cycle disruptions in OTHER PEOPLE is “lizard people are running the government” levels of dumb-fuckery.
The only scientific explanation I can think of is them getting pregnant. That will impact your menstrual cycle. At least they would have at least had a lower chance of contracting COVID than from an unvaccinated person who got them pregnant.