Members of the Board of Education:
During my decades of work in education, I have never written a letter to the members of the Board of Education. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. So I offer my perspective:
It is unconscionable to expect those who have been vaccinated, those who have done everything they can to keep themselves and those around them safe — first and foremost, our students — to be willingly exposed to those who choose not to be. We would not do that in our private lives; asking us to do so in our professional lives is disheartening, to say the least. Even with mandatory periodic testing, everyone is still vulnerable to those who might test positive while we wait for test results.