Teacher Michelle Parker said schools had been blindsided by the state government’s decision to send all regional students and Melbourne VCE students back to face-to-face teaching. MelbourneLockdown covid19 coronavirus vaccinations
VCE English teacher Michelle Parker will feel unsafe and undervalued when she returns to work in person on Friday morning.
“There was a lot of shock. We were not expecting at all for year 11 and 12 to go back and a lot of people are feeling like we’re sacrificial lambs,” she said.“The government’s saying ‘we’ve got all these people we want to continue doing their jobs in person but some we’ll prioritise to be vaccinated and some we won’t’.
But on Thursday deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng said that “at this stage we’re comfortable with the prioritisation that we have”. Cameron Peverett, Colac Specialist School principal and president of the Principals’ Association of Specialist Schools, said he could not understand that exclusion.
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