Fired Brooklyn teacher calls City Hall vaccine mandate ‘shameful’By Rich Calder
February 12, 2022
A longtime Brooklyn public school teacher said it’s “shameful” the Adams administration axed her and thousands of other city workers who refused to get vaccinated — especially after they “risked” their lives returning to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Many of us are not against the vaccine,” Cassey McFadden told The Post Saturday.
“We just don’t like the idea of someone forcing us to do something. It is about civil liberties and our rights. We are treading on some dangerous waters.”
The Brooklyn-based senior says she retired at the age of 55 in 2005 after putting in more than 25 years as a teacher but returned to work as a substitute teacher for the Department of Education last year as rising COVID-19 rates lead to severe teacher shortages
She said she depended on the extra earnings to stay afloat financially.
“I risked my life returning because the city wasn’t even testing children then,” she said.
McFadden said she hasn’t gotten the vaccine because she suffers badly from allergies and wants to be cautious. However, she said she’s more than willing to get regularly tested for the virus and believes the city should bring back an earlier program where school staff and students were tested weekly.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/fired-brooklyn-teacher-calls-city-hall-vaccine-mandate-shameful/
