Include teachers in priority group for the vaccine before schools return · petition

What the petition asks

Healthcare and social care workers are being prioritised to receive the vaccine, so why not teachers? Teachers are being expected to return to schools on 8th March with little to no PPE and no guarantee that they will receive the vaccine before others their age who are working from home.

It is unreasonable and outrageous to expect teachers to return to school without adequate protection. We know that the rise in cases between September and December was linked directly to schools re-opening, so it is ludacris to expect teachers to return with no protection and no promise of a vaccine. If counsellors and social workers working from home can be given the vaccine, why can’t classroom teachers? Evading this responsibility puts teachers lives directly at risk.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may like to sign these petitions which call for the same actions:

Don’t re-open schools until all staff have been vaccinated
Prioritise teachers, school and childcare staff for Covid-19 vaccination

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Timeline

23 Feb 2021	Petition opened for signatures
24 Feb 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee