Miami — A private school in Miami is warning its staff against getting COVID-19 vaccines and says it's their policy not to employ anyone who has been vaccinated.
A letter stating the new guidance was sent to parents of students at the Centner Academy. In the letter, the school discourages teachers and staff from getting COVID-19 vaccines or asks them to wait until the end of the school year.
The letter even states that legal action will be taken if staff lie.
"Here we have one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal to protect ourselves and prevent this problem, and they are discouraging the use of it," said Dr. Aileen Marty, an infectious disease expert at Florida International University. "It's tragic."
Carter Sox, an employment lawyer with Gallup Auerbach, said it's not illegal.
"This is a private school. It's not a public school," Sox said. "So generally a private employer in Florida can fire someone for any reason or no reason at all."
However, there appears to be some recourse if fired personnel want to fight it.
"There is a potential for the teachers to say that this rule would discriminate against them based on a disability," Cox said. "So they may say they have a serious medical condition that requires them to get the vaccine."
According to the New York Times, which wrote an article on the Centner situation, faculty was told to fill out a confidential form answering whether they received the vaccine, which one and how many doses.
In the letter, the school claims tens of thousands of women worldwide had adverse reproductive issues, including irregular menstruation, bleeding and miscarriages, by just being near someone who was vaccinated.
"It's egregious towards anyone who wants to protect themselves from this virus, who would be employed by them," Marty said. "There is nothing infectious in the vaccine whatsoever and the type of immunity that they induce in no way affects anything to do with someone's fertility."
The school also claimed it spoke with medical leaders about the vaccine who said it's experimental and not enough is known about it.
But Marty is confident in the use of the vaccine and questions who the medical experts are the school is using.
"The author has a very primitive understanding of what a vaccine is and really no understanding of the scientific process," Marty said.
The United Teachers of Dade union released a statement in response to the letter.
It reads in part, "these schools not only teach misinformation and peddle propaganda, they punish teachers who try to protect themselves and their families" and goes on to stay, "we are horrified by the unsafe conditions and labor violations that colleagues at schools such as this one have to endure due to lack of union representation and contract rights.”
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