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Err … It’s For the Kids

The latest New York City (NYC) kerfuffle is about mandatory Covid vaccinations for all NYC teachers and other school employees. This requirement was the NYC mayor, Bill deBlasio’s, mandate that was to go into effect on 9/27/21. 

Before this mandate could go into effect, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit granted a temporary injunction on this vaccine mandate. 

The vaccine mandate would have required teachers and other education workers to show proof of vaccine beginning Monday, Sept. 27. After the court’s last-minute intervention, the mandate’s enforcement is now delayed pending a review by a three-judge panel set to begin 9/29/21.

What I find interesting in this obvious power struggle is the present position of the teacher’s unions, who are pressing for a delay in the mandate, arguing that the requirement would leave the school system (the largest in the nation) short-staffed if imposed too early. The way I interpret this union position is that if the power hungry NYC mayor’s mandate goes through, the teachers are going to have to do more work.

(Council of School Supervisors and Administrators President Mark Cannizzaro called the mandate’s Sept. 27 deadline “dangerous and irresponsible,” and warned it would “allow schools and centers to operate so severely understaffed,” the New York Post reported:

The United Federation of Teachers echoed that alarm soon after.

“The principals’ union is right — our schools are not ready for the implementation of the vaccine mandate,” said union chief Michael Mulgrew.  “I hope for once City Hall is listening to its own school leaders and finally starts to put together a reasonable plan to face the challenge of keeping our children safe.”

What I am not hearing from either side is “Err … what is best for educating the school children?” As has been apparent since the beginning of this pandemic, young children are at minimal risk from Covid. So if this were to actually be solely for the children, no vaccination mandate would be necessary. Those NYC teachers, etcetera who have chosen to be unvaccinated are the ones at risk, not the children. If a NYC teacher or other school employee chooses to be unvaccinated, so be it. From my perspective their reason is not important … whether it be prior Covid, a religious objection, or simply fear of the potential side effects of the vaccine.

Everyone knows that irrespective of what the 2nd Circuit Court decides, these types of generalized vaccine mandates … ‘yea or nay’ will ultimately go up the ladder to the Supreme Court. 

Hopefully SCOTUS will not duck this issue again as it did with mandatory vaccines for Indiana college students.

9/28/21

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