Posted on 05/13/2023 10:30:24 PM PDT by george76
When the COVID-19 vaccines emerged, the narrative started out as a suggestion that people get should the vaccines (and what would apparently become endless boosters)
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It didn’t take long for the narrative to turn to “get the shot — or else” for far too many people. Vaccine mandates hurt employees across many sectors of the economy, but those vaunted “essential workers” often bore the brunt of them. First responders lost their jobs, and when teachers weren’t having to educate kids remotely, many of them faced unfair mandates.
Now, three Rhode Island teachers who lost their jobs under a vaccine mandate in 2021 are being rehired and receiving a settlement for their trouble. The Barrington School Committee sacked Brittany DiOrio, Stephanie Hines, and Kerri Thurber over their unwillingness to take the vax. The teachers applied for a religious exemption to the vaccine, but the school system denied the exemption...
the teachers “failed to follow the district’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.” (Remember, comply or else!) However, they sued and won. In addition to giving the teachers their jobs back, the school system had to pay a total of $493,000 in damages.
“In coordination with our legal counsel and Superintendent, we determined this ongoing, expensive litigation would likely continue for a lengthy period of time, and a resolution should be reached,” the School Committee announced in a press release. “We believe our administration’s time, and our district’s financial resources, should be spent on the daily work and mission of Barrington Public Schools.”
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the teachers .. are officially reinstated.
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I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping that we’ll hear more stories like these. It’s immensely satisfying to see institutions that forced people to comply with ridiculous COVID policies held accountable for denying freedom in such a forceful way.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Why would you assume that I disagree?
Maybe its the old “just following orders” thing.
I think you are correct. We are once again seeing that most human beings have no backbone.
The "school system" isn't paying the damages. The taxpayer is. Really, it's the members of the Barrington school committee that should be held personally responsible.
This is a great point.
After his famous experiment, Stanley Milgram came to the conclusion that only about one-third of a population had the moral fortitude to resist an unlawful order.
Uh, no.
Thanks to all posters. Crimes against innocent humans.
Thx for that. Will spend some time going over Stanley Milgram’s experiments.
I remember as a kid watching a TV documentary on experiments in which people were told to inflict pain on others with electric shock (and the people being shocked would cry out). But people followed orders without complaint.
Those were Milgram's experiments, aren't they?
He conducted his experiment at Yale in the early 1960s. The arrest (and subsequent trial) of Adolf Eichmann had brought the Holocaust back to the front pages and he was curious about whether Americans (or any group of people) were capable of building a comparable infrastructure and carrying out a mass murder on the scale the Nazis had done some twenty years prior.
When later asked if he thought he could find a sufficient number of Americans in this country who could do such a thing, he reportedly replied that he thought he could find enough people for the job in New Haven (CT).
Yep.
NOT SURE-—BUT I THINK that those damages are NOT TAXABLE INCOME.
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