Thu Sep 22, 2022 – 5:09 pm EDT
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) – The Big Apple has forced nearly 2,000 teachers and classroom aides out of their jobs over their refusal to take COVID-19 vaccines, with the latest round of firings claiming an estimated 850 workers.
The New York Post reported that with the passing of the latest deadline (September 5) for unvaccinated workers to either take the shot or being “deemed to have voluntarily resigned,” 450 of roughly 1,300 complied and returned to work from a yearlong unpaid leave, with the remainder losing their jobs.
That brings the total terminations since the end of October 2021, when the mandate for municipal workers took effect, up to approximately 1,950.
“I’m angry, I’m hurt, to be cast aside like I was nothing,” says 15-year Brooklyn elementary teacher Rachelle Garcia, who is losing her job after being denied a religious exemption. “Because I couldn’t give a proper goodbye to my students, other teachers told me they kept asking, ‘When is Ms. Garcia coming back?’ That made me cry so much.”
The municipal mandate, which NYC’s Democrat leaders have left in place despite ending the private employer mandate effective November
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