Vermont teacher gets 4,400+ signatures on petition advocating to vaccinate school staff
She wants to see teachers vaccinated as soon as possible Share Updated: 6:54 PM EST Jan 21, 2021
She wants to see teachers vaccinated as soon as possible Share Updated: 6:54 PM EST Jan 21, 2021
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Show Transcript AND THEY FEEL THEY NEED TO BE VACCINATED AS SOON AS IT S SAFE TEACHING KINDERGARTEN IS OF LOVE FOR SAMANTHA BREHM. I HAVE THREE JOBS. MY FIRST JOB IS TO KEEP THEM SAFE. MY SECOND JOB IS TO LOVE THEM. AND MY THIRD JOB IS TO TEACH THEM. AND ITS IN THAT ORDER OF IMPORTANCE SHE BELIEVES IT S IMPORTANT FOR HER TO TEACH THEM IN PERSON. WHICH THE MOUNT MANSFIELD UNIFIED UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS BEEN DOING FULL-TIME SINCE OCTOBER. BUT THAT MEANS SHE S EXPOSED TO UP TO á25 DIFFERENT PODS EVERY DAY. PUTTING HER AT A GREATER RISK OF CONTRACTING COVID-19. SO, SHE FIGURED SHE NEEDED TO ACT. I NEEDED TO EXERCISE MY RIGHT AS A VERMONTER AT A TIME
Ilustration More than most, teachers tend to respect the rules, and Amy Cudney is no exception. The J.J. Flynn Elementary School librarian dutifully canceled her Thanksgiving plans last fall and ceased outdoor visits with friends as soon as Gov. Phil Scott restricted household gatherings. Cudney sent her husband, who works remotely, to retrieve their daughter from Syracuse University at the end of the fall term and saw that they quarantined upon return. Besides her time in Burlington school classrooms, Cudney said, her only out-of-home activities are bicycling to and from work and running errands. When Cudney fell ill last month with COVID-19, a likely source of her exposure seemed obvious. One of the classrooms she works in had just gone remote because a student had tested positive; Cudney had already been told by her principal to quarantine as a close contact, she said.