SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 8 (EUROPE PRESS) –
ANPE Canarias has denounced that the teaching staff of the schools participating in the pilot vaccination program for children between 5 and 12 years of age against COVID-19 in educational centers is receiving threats from anti-vaccine groups.
The union has revealed that two associations opposed to the vaccination process and the use of masks have sent intimidating letters to the centers accusing them of committing serious crimes and threatening the management staff with taking legal action against them, as they have already done. previously with health workers.
For the trade union center, these practices of pressure and intimidation are completely unacceptable, for which reason it demands that the Educational Administration take all necessary measures to protect the management staff and all the teachers who are being involved in this situation.
“The same motivation that led us to oppose vaccination in schools is the one that now leads us to strongly and forcefully reject these threats both in form and substance, and it is none other than to defend and protect the teaching staff, students and the entire educational community. It is not admissible to try to coerce teachers by trying to instill fear about the vaccination process,” stressed Pedro Crespo, president of ANPE Canarias.
ANPE Canarias recalls that it is the only union that has shown its rejection of the pilot vaccination experience in schools launched by the Ministry of Education, although for reasons very different from the anti-scientific arguments put forward by denial and anti-vaccine groups.
The trade union center has maintained from the outset that it should not be the teachers who assume the bureaucratic burden of managing authorizations with families and organizing the vaccination procedure and, in addition, has warned that vaccinating in schools during school hours is not the most convenient to facilitate the presence of fathers, mothers or legal guardians who wish to accompany the students, nor to guarantee the required confidentiality and avoid stigmatization of those who do not get the vaccine.
For this reason, it defends that the most appropriate thing is that the vaccination of children between 5 and 12 years of age be carried out in health facilities or in spaces specifically enabled for it.
