“I really want to keep my job, I won’t quit, I will have to be fired.”

She refused to be vaccinated because she believed everyone had a right to choose and said the Government mandate was morally wrong.

Mortimer was “beyond devastated” at the thought of no longer teaching.

A mother of three children, she was the sole wage earner in her family but would “rather be on the breadline than go back on my principles”.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/126684315/school-teacher-i-wont-be-getting-covid19-jab