DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – While several local school districts push for masks, North Texas schools are not requiring vaccines for teachers.
A CBS 11 I-Team investigation found most school districts are not even asking teachers about their vaccination status.
Out of the 42 school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that responded to an I-Team survey, only six districts said they were either keeping track of teacher vaccination rates or had an estimated vaccination rate based on anonymous surveys.
With concerns about the delta variant’s impact on children, anxious parents are seeking information as they try to determine their child’s Covid-19 risks.
For some this includes whether their child’s teacher has been vaccinated.
“Parents are definitely concerned. You don’t know who’s vaccinated in the building and who’s not,” said Seneca Denman, a teacher at Dallas ISD’s Haynes Global Prep Academy. “I would tell parents that I’m fully vaccinated if that helps ease their minds.”
But not every teacher is comfortable with sharing that information and school districts say due to privacy laws they can’t tell a parent whether their child’s teacher has been vaccinated.
San Antonio ISD is the only major school district in Texas to require all its staff to be vaccinated.
While no school district in North Texas requires its employees to be vaccinated, a handful are keeping track of their staff’s overall vaccination rate.
Midlothian ISD said its campus vaccination rates range from 58% to...
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