Covid 19 Omicron outbreak: Unvaccinated Dunedin high school principal working off-site

A principal of a Dunedin secondary faculty who has not been vaccinated will likely be working off-site and unable to fulfill pupils when faculty returns subsequent week.

Dad and mom of faculty pupils had been informed in an replace despatched on Thursday that Logan Park Excessive College co-principal Kristan Mouat had not been vaccinated and would start the college 12 months working remotely.

Assistant principal John Main mentioned within the replace Mouat was not vaccinated “as a result of medical causes”.

Mouat wouldn’t have bodily contact with pupils, he mentioned.

Main mentioned the college was totally compliant with the vaccine mandate.

Pupils would nonetheless be capable to make on-line appointments to fulfill Mouat and she or he would nonetheless be capable to have face-to-face contact with mother and father and employees.

“She is going to proceed all the standard strategic, curriculum and management work.”

The college would proceed to work with the board of trustees to make sure compliance with the mandate and there could be no further prices to the college with the working association, he mentioned.

Pupils return to the college on Wednesday.

Mouat declined to reply questions on whether or not she had a medical exemption from vaccination or if the standard of training offered on the faculty would endure on account of her working remotely.

She referred inquiries to board of trustees chairman John Bradfield, who mentioned he had nothing so as to add to the message despatched out to folks by Main.

In November, the Ministry of Schooling detailed the method for varsity employees who wanted an exemption. It mentioned solely these bodily unable to tolerate the Pfizer vaccine would get an exemption, which might be about 100 to 200 nationally.

If a employees member was issued an exemption, it was really helpful the board perform a well being and danger evaluation in session with the worker to find out what measures might be put in place to minimise dangers to the exempt individual, different employees and pupils.

Ministry of Schooling chief south Nancy Bell mentioned the board of trustees employed faculty employees and was chargeable for making certain the college complied with the mandate. The ministry didn’t maintain vaccine standing data.

Boards made choices on the way to handle staff who had not met vaccination necessities.