Robinson High School PTSA Action Alert
Attention! All Robinson families, including caregivers, grandparents, students, and friends of Robinson:
Your calls of support are urgently needed!!
We believe all teachers and adults working at Robinson High School should be be given priority access to vaccines. This includes all administrators, aides, food service workers, custodial staff, bus drivers, and more.
We appreciate Hillsborough County Public Schools’ efforts to prioritize school employees ages 65 and older but ALL workers must receive the vaccine.
Our position is that vaccines will benefit the entire community. Our children need to be back in school! This allows parents to work resulting in a strong economy. We know education is most effective when a student learns in the classroom, connecting with a teacher in person and interacting with other students.
In school, food is accessible, mental health improves (for everyone!), social services are provided and students are back with their friends! A healthy School environment facilitates intellectual, social and behavioral development for children. Florida is failing to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s classification of school staff as “frontline essential workers.” Federal vaccination guidelines list school personnel in category 1b – just behind the elderly in longterm care facilities and front line health care workers.
The benefits of our teachers receiving the vaccines, is that many could return to Robinson High School and ALL teachers will be better protected during this pandemic and our students would recover their complete learning experience. Robinson
serves over 1500 students each year in the 7th largest school district in the country with over 220,000 students countywide.
Hillsborough County Public Schools Superintendent Addison Davis and many local business leaders support teachers getting vaccinated. Davis joined the Classroom Teachers Association, the HCPS School Board, and 37 Tampa Bay leaders
including Jeff Vinik, John Couris (CEO, Tampa General Hospital), Richard Gonzmart, (President, Columbia Restaurant Group), Judy Genshaft, (former USF President), and many more in signing a letter to Governor DeSantis urging him to make
teachers a priority for the vaccines. A healthy school administration and supporting staff acts as a catalyst of community strength and provides confidence to the student body and each family and household.
Please assist us in calling and emailing the Hillsborough County Department of Health and the governor's office. Ask them to follow the CDC recommendation to prioritize adults working at our schools for safety, for our economy, and to give our children the best learning environment possible.
Please post your action on social media and tag:
● Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D., First Lady and educator @drbiden
● Miguel Cardona, President’s Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Education
@teachcardona
● Cindy Marten, nominee for Deputy Secretary of Education
@BeKindDreamBig
