Why do teachers get to skip the line for vaccines? They were among the first to work from home.?

Teachers are exposed to hundreds of children in the course of a day. Each of those children are exposed to thier parents and siblings, who are exposed to others...on and on ...

To keep children safe and get parents away from remote home schooling, so they can get back to work while the children resume their schooling, it is important that teachers get vaccinated.

Covid has killed so many people all over the world. There has to be some order in thevaccination process.

We need to all be patient and practice logical ways to protect ourselves until this pandemic subsides. 

If every day people took this pandemic seriously, it would not have spread so rapidly to kill so many people.  Especially when COVID first hit NYC,  where thousands of covid corpses were stored in refrigeration trucks. That was enough warning for what was in store for us. But people just did not protect themselves and one another enough.

Now we know better.

I think its because they do daily interaction with a bunch of unruly kids who are famous in history for being virus spreaders.   They are the ultimate essential workers because they are with our kids every day.  What is wrong with you?  and if we want our kids in school in person as they should be, its logical that you vaccinate the teachers. Make sense now?

They need the schools open pronto, for the benefit of the kids.  Some states opened the schools regardless, and the teachers were stuck having to work without the vaccine, amongst covid.  How's that fairness for ya?

In most cases it's because their unions are demanding that as a condition of them returning to school. 

Teachers work with kids. are you ******* dumb, or dumb?

the teachers' position is simple -- since children aren't being vaccinated and won't be for months or longer, they are constantly exposed to possible CV19 -- so, for their protection, you either close the schools until most children are also vaccinated [next fall??  no, wait -- more like next January because the vaccines aren't known to be safe for children yet] -- or you move teachers forward in the queue.  Ask any parent who relies on the school as child day care and you'll see they support the teachers -- they NEED this so they can go back to work.

So that the schools can reopen and children won't be at home and their parents won't have to stay home with them.  The practical limit on reopening businesses is that one adult per household has to stay home in every household with a child whose teachers are working from home.

Your 1st mistake is expecting LOGIC to be involved in POLITICAL decisions.

Your 2nd is thinking your co-worker's parent's death has ANYTHING to do with the question.

Because kids CANNOT get vaccinated yet.    Giving the vaccines to teachers and school employees enables us to open schools up.

Many parents have been unable to return to work because their children are at home.   Reopening schools is a major step towards normalcy.

Not all jobs have you working in close contact with others.    The guy fixing your power lines, for example, is up on a boom lift by himself..   well distanced away from his partner (IF he is even working with a partner).

A risk assessment is taken into consideration when deciding who is next in line for vaccines.   It's based on who is more likely to contract or spread the disease.  It's not based on who's job is more essential.

No one is "jumping the line"

Two other co-workers of mine lost their mom. And teachers wine? Loved ones die around my co-workers and we are the last to get vaccinated. Maybe our immune system is strong because we are around people. Teachers are around kids. Their immune systems should be strong too.