Is my Child’s Teacher Vaccinated?

And do I have the right to ask?

My granddaughter is starting actual in-person high school after spending her entire freshman year online. Here are the “rules”: Per CDC guidelines, if students are fully vaccinated and present proof, they may attend classes unmasked. How one enforces that in a high school with multiple teachers is beyond me. I assume that since students are not required to be vaccinated, teachers may also decline vaccination. If so, can my grandchild’s parents request that she only be placed with vaccinated teachers?

More importantly, all of my unvaccinated grandkids who are under age 12 will be going to school soon. They are especially vulnerable to the Delta variant that is highly contagious. Can their parents request that they be placed with vaccinated teachers? Do the people who serve food in the cafeteria have to be vaccinated? These seem like a reasonable asks to me but perhaps public schools are not allowed to require or even inquire about staff members’ vaccination status. If not, does a teacher’s or school staff member’s privacy trump a parent’s right to know?

As a retired preschool director, I’m wondering what the COVID vaccination policy is for early childhood programs. Since the rules about COVID seem to be confusing, are unvaccinated staff members working with our youngest children? Although in some programs…