Corona Vaccine To Teachers On Priority Will Help Reopening In-Person Schools, possibility of conducting physical board exams.
There is a debate getting fire that teachers should also be given priority while accessing to covid 19 vaccine for safe reopening of educational institutes and to conduct board exams safely. Also Federal education ministry has decided to vaccinate teachers and other staff on priority bases in order to conduct in person board exams which are going to start on 3rd week of June.
Despite students pressure, government seems serious on one point that no student will be promoted without exam. The possibility of safe exam is only possible if all teachers can get vaccination in time.
It will also led to opening the physical schools earlier as a lot of time is wasted in long Corona lockdown. There is a great study loss which students have faced last year.
Exam cancel or not, pressure is coming on students nerves
According to WHO, Corona vaccine to more public means more safety and a corona safe environment. Corona vaccine to targeted fraction of society is stepped in almost all countries of world. It started from Healthcare front line workers to old age citizens and now reaching to general public in USA, Canada, UK and many other Europeon and Asian countries.
Teachers were also asking for priority in getting corona vaccine before in-person schools are open on regular basis. Corona vaccine to teachers on early basis is expected as they remain in direct contact with corona carrier children or may get close to insecure bubble during teaching high school, college and university students.
This is a matter of discussion in USA too, whether schools should reopen before all teachers get vaccinated or not? Whether schools should wait for the teachers to get two doses of vaccine or call them to teach in-person. It's a tough time for the education sector throughout the world where states and districts are struggling against students' safe come back to school. Many parents are still reluctant to send their children to a physical school. In many districts schools are open but children are not on track and attendance is very low.
Somewhere students get absent on getting corona or remain at home after coming across with other corona patient. Asides society also feels that education loss is a substantial and inferring psychological pressure on students. Online classes are not much helpful and doesn't remain interesting and engaging now.
Keeping in view the parent's concerns, according to media reports the director of the centers for disease control and prevention in the USA explained on a question that it's appropriate to give teachers priority access to scarce early covid 19 vaccine doses but schools don't need to wait until all teachers are vaccinated.
Also, a federal vaccination advisory board has suggested that teachers and school employees should be given priority for vaccine doses.
'I also want to say that increasing data suggest that schools can be safely reopened and this safe reopen can be managed without waiting for all teachers to get a vaccination, CDC director continued.
In most parts of the world including the USA, Canada, UK, and other European countries corona vaccination first phase of health workers has been done. The next level of old age citizens' vaccination is pacing fast.
Now when it comes to the general public and adults then teachers are looking to get priority in corona vaccination.
Like in big districts of USA like Newyork, Chicago, LA, and Fairfax, and others, school administration is planning to have after school programs, summer programs and modification in policies to enhance students' interest and parents' confidence towards physical schools. Here, many teachers showed their concerns to rejoin the school before getting the two doses of vaccination. They have fears from new variations of corona infection. This concern may slower down the pace of schools, colleges and universities to work back as normal.
This is a time of uncertainty when third layer of covid 19 surging across the globe. Many countries attempted multiple times to open the schools following strict SOPs. It is claimed that corona virus doesn't spread from schools but there reported a direct positive correlation between school opening days and surging new covid patients. Administrations were compelled to close the schools on short notices at many districts then. Many teachers fell prey to covid 19 and urge to remain safe before attending the regular schools.
As healthcare and corona command and operation centres suggest that safe reopening of schools doesn't persuade teacher vaccination is a must. According to research, it is observed that schools following strict covid 19 SOPs like wearing masks, social distancing, and reduced attendance in groups showed the least documented covid 19 cases. Opening of K-8 and K-12 schools required special supervision and a strict following of corona SOPs.
The fact is here that the teachers should have prior access to the corona vaccine after healthcare workers and aged citizens. This is also a reality that there is a wide gap of supply and demand for covid vaccine through the world. The vaccine project is hampered due to many factors.
Somewhere public doesn't seem serious about getting registered and vaccinated due to concerns about the vaccines. If the situation persists then the efforts of the safe reopening of education institutes will be delayed. Education sector directors suggest that giving priority to teachers for covid vaccination can be a game-changer. To achieve the goal of safe in-person education vaccines should be broadly and equitably available.