{"id":36264,"date":"2021-11-04T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=36264"},"modified":"2021-11-04T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T20:27:14","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/covid-19-vaccine-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccine Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter to all New Westminster Schools staff,<\/p>\n<p>As you know, last week the Board of Education decided, while fully endorsing and supporting vaccinations as a vital layer of protections available to us, that <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/statement-on-staff-vaccine-mandate\/\">our District will not be implementing a vaccine mandate<\/a> for staff.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was based on recommendations from health authorities, research and analysis that covered many facets of the work we do. What that data showed us was: we have every reason to believe that the vast majority of you are fully vaccinated. So to all of you who are fully vaccinated, \u00a0or are on your way to meeting that marker, thank you. It\u2019s an important and easy way to protect both yourselves and all the people around you \u2013 at work and at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To those of you who have had questions, who haven\u2019t found the time, or who have been resistant for some other reason, we are jointly appealing to you now to take steps to join your peers in getting vaccinated. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who are able to, vaccinations are important way to protect everyone around us, especially as we seek to protect those who cannot be vaccinated or are immune compromised.<\/p>\n<p>This appeal is also about our concern for your individual health as well. For your safety, and for that of those around you, we encourage anyone who is eligible to get vaccinated as soon as possible, for those who have yet to do so. And we\u2019ll offer this reminder as well: you can take paid time off to get vaccinated, using the \u201cCOVID Vaccination\u201d option in our absence reporting system to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of vaccination status, we thank every single one of you for the steps you\u2019re taking each day to safely support our school communities.<\/p>\n<p>In appreciation,<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education for New Westminster<br \/>\nNew Westminster Schools (School District No. 40)<br \/>\nNew Westminster Teachers\u2019 Union<br \/>\nCUPE Local 409<br \/>\nNew Westminster Principals\u2019 and Vice-Principals\u2019 Association<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VaccineEncouragement-Final.pdf\">PDF: Vaccine Encouragement, open letter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter to all New Westminster Schools staff, As you know, last week the Board of Education decided, while fully endorsing and supporting vaccinations as a vital layer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-info-centre","category-home-page-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36266,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264\/revisions\/36266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}