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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8172595" data-attributes="member: 6685541">I'm experiencing an interesting intersection of policy and politic (lower-case p, I promise) in my school district. I work in a very wealthy county, but a few schools (like the one I work in) have a much higher proportion of low-income families than others. In a meeting about vaccines, the superintendent of schools for our county said they would be rolling out vaccines for teachers and staff in alphabetical order by school name. You can tell they picked this in order to be "fair." But there's a big difference between fair and equitable!One of my coworkers spoke up in a meeting with the superintendent of schools and challenged this, saying it would be better to find another factor (say, number of students with who receive free-or-reduced lunch) to prioritize schools by. After all, we know from multiple studies that low-income families are more likely to live in generational housing, work front-line jobs, and be more susceptible to catching and spreading COVID. Apparently the superintendent was, as they say, shook.We will see what happens! But I am so proud of my coworker for speaking out. Theoretically I will start getting the vaccine this month or next.</blockquote>