A Miami school is discouraging teachers from getting the Covid vaccine, saying any vaccinated employees will be barred from interacting with students. The privately-run Centner Academy is citing debunked claims of non-vaccinated people being "negatively impacted" by contact with vaccinated people. There is no evidence for such a wacked-out theory.
Centner Academy is run by Leila Centner, who left her day job after a trip to India to establish the academy as the first "Happiness School" in the United States. Centner wanted to create a school that would suit kids and their well being.
During her trip to India, Center discovered the science of happiness, and found guidance for the opening of the academy from Tal Ben Shahar, who co-founded an organization called The Happiness Studies Academy. Centner Academy focuses on the five aspects of well-being. Students meditate and have "mindness" coaches. Annual tuition begins at $15,160 for preschool students and goes up to nearly $30,000 for middle school students.
Centner informed parents that, when possible, the academy's policy is to not employ anyone who has received a Covid-19 vaccine. In a letter last week to staff, Centner also ordered teachers to notify the school if they had already received the jab. "We cannot allow recently vaccinated people to be near our students until more information is known," Centner wrote. Teachers who wait to get vaccinated after the school year ends will be allowed to return only when clinical trials on the vaccine are completed, assuming a position at the school is still available.
Centner is spreading false stories about vaccinated individuals affecting unvaccinated people, claiming that three women in the school's community had their menstrual cycles "impacted after having spent time with a vaccinated person". There is absolutely no scientific evidence for any of these claims. None of the approved coronavirus vaccines have been linked to infertility, miscarriages or any other negative changes to women's reproductive health.
Leila and her husband David Centner have described themselves as "health freedom advocates", and have actively encouraged parents at the Centner Academy to file for exemptions from vaccine requirements. Leila Centner has also frequently shared anti-vaccine content on Facebook.
A representative for Leila Centner said that the school was not "100 percent sure that Covid injections are safe and there are too many unknown variables for us to feel comfortable at this current time".
The United Teachers of Dade, a local not-for-profit teachers group, said in a statement: "We are horrified by the unsafe conditions and labor violations that [teachers] at schools such as this one have to endure due to lack of union representation and contract rights."
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