re: EBR School board just voted to require staff to get vaxxed and test weekly

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Teacher shortage incoming

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More and more places are starting to require their people take the vaccination.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

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Teacher shortage incoming

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We already have a shortage of about 200 teachers. Seriously, they are now giving out "temporary authority to teach" vouchers (TATS), and that's something that they haven't done in a while. If you have a college degree and are willing to sign up for iTeach or a similar program, you can be hired immediately.

And do you know why we have such a shortage? The single biggest reason is that teachers are afraid of getting COVID. My own school had a teacher quit the week before school started, because he was afraid.

So, I really wonder how many teachers we would actually lose over a vaccine mandate, because there are definitely some for whom a mandate would encourage them to work, because they'd feel safer.

Source: I am a middle-school math teacher at an EBR school.