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State officials called them essential workers and they were lauded as heroes.
They helped keep the economy afloat, giving hospitals and grocery store employees a safe place to take their children.
But while thousands of K-12 educators across Ohio receive their COVID-19 vaccines this month, those who work in standalone preschools and child care centers don t qualify.
It s kind of a smack in the face, said Shrontz, a master teacher at the A. Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning, a preschool associated with Ohio State University s College of Education and Human Ecology. We ve been open since June. We didn t have the option to go online, like school districts did. ....

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