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#Thousands of NYC teachers aren’t vaxxed. What — they’re all Trump supporters?

#Thousands of NYC teachers aren’t vaxxed. What — they’re all Trump supporters?

What’s up with New York City teachers not getting vaxxed? The Department of Education said that, as of Tuesday, 13 percent of them — some 10,100 teachers — still lacked even a single shot, which they’re required to get by Monday.

That number works out to one out of every eight teachers, or an average of roughly six for each of the city’s 1,600 schools, though by Thursday the teachers union was claiming only about 8,000 lack jabs. And it doesn’t count another 18,000 other school staffers (janitors, food-service workers, etc.) who also had yet to be jabbed.

Thousands of health-care workers also failed to get their first doses, posing potential shortages.

Surely these people can’t all be seeking religious or medical exemptions. (A teachers union source tells The Post that only a small number of requests for accommodations are being granted, in any event.)

(By the way: Does anyone really think New York City teachers and health-care workers are “deplorable” right-wingers and Trump supporters who, according to the left, make up most of the nation’s anti-vax holdouts? Ha!)

The teachers union likes to claim that its members put kids first. And, yes, many do. Yet since the start of the pandemic, the union has fought for closed schools and remote learning, which was unnecessary and hurt kids. It even sued to try to stop the city’s vax mandate — and many teachers seem to be resisting, threatening staffing shortages if unvaxxed teachers aren’t allowed to teach.

On Thursday, the teachers and principals unions called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to push off Monday’s deadline for teachers to be vaxxed. The unions aren’t putting students first — but last.

De Blasio pooh-poohed the idea that unvaxxed teachers will spark a shortage: “We are not seeing something that would have a profound impact on the teaching corps numbers for next Monday,” he said. DOE has hired 5,200 new teachers who can fill the gap.

Monday may well be a mess; the school-security-officers’ union (whose members may only be 40 percent vaxxed) is also warning of disaster, and far be it for us to assume Team de Blasio truly has its ducks in a row. But the chaos will be at least as much on the unions that didn’t get their people jabbed as on the mayor who gave them ample warning.

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