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Exclusive | Longtime NYC teacher wins court battle, reinstated after firing over COVID vaccine – but remains barred from school: ‘I’m not a criminal’
“I’m not a criminal, and yet they are making me feel like I’m breaking the law,” Daphne Halkias, 55, told The Post after she was unceremoniously booted from PS-85 in Long Island City wh…
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A veteran Queens teacher who was fired for refusing to get the COVID vaccine and then reinstated by a judge says she was still blocked from entering her school Tuesday.
A judge last month ruled that Halkias was to be reinstated to the city Department of Education effective Aug. 1, after a protracted court battle over her employment.
Teacher refused a COVID vaccine and was fired. She claimed she was exempt as she was Greek Orthodox.
She won a lawsuit but when she returned to work a security guard-who hugged her, was instructed to throw her out.
The city claims there's an automatic stay of the judge's order since they filed a notice of appeal, unless there's some weird specific rule about this that's not true and they have to apply for a stay.
Her lawyer says it might because she's near retirement and makes good money, but my suspicion is the school system is too entrenched in Covid to accept the loss.
Sigh, we are here in the blue state or blue run population centers.