I am willingly wearing a mask, cleaning, and social distancing. All of these are temporary measures that have proven to be highly effective in my in-person classroom for more than a year. Not one of my students has contracted COVID from school transmission. We diligently quarantine any potential exposure cases (individuals exposed elsewhere to a positive COVID individual) according to the VA Dept. of Health instructions.

Masking, cleaning, and distancing are SAFE measures. Unlike the vaccine, they are external to the body. In and of themselves, these procedures do not carry any risk of side-effects or long-term effects to individuals. The COVID vaccines, like all vaccines, carry some degree of risk. I know of a healthy individual who died from the vaccine. I know others who are experiencing serious vaccine side effects. Each person should have the CHOICE to decide which risk they prefer to take: the risk of COVID or the risks of the vaccine.

A treatment is on the way: the news is now discussing Merck's anti-viral COVID pill, which should significantly impact the disease...reducing symptoms, hospitalizations, and deaths. Why force people to lose their livelihoods or compromise their convictions when we can hold out just a little longer for a far more tenable solution that is already in sight?

Furthermore, I agree completely with the explanation of another commenter:

Commenter: David Christhilf - Poquoson, VA

No. Mandates lead to liabilities. Religious accommodations should be honored.

These vaccines are not ordinary vaccines.  They are designed to make each person's body manufacture spike proteins in order to teach the body what they look like and learn to fight against them.  This technique has never been used before on a large scale human population and it is highly experimental. 
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No administrator should assume the level of risk that is associated with these gene therapy injections.  There is a reason why the pharmaceutical companies have been exempted from liability for adverse consequences from these injections, and that is because they are experimental  Long term effects such as infertility have not had sufficient time to be evaluated yet. 
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It's one thing for a school board to encourage and facilitate these injections.  It is quite another for a school board to mandate these injections in order to attend school.  That step will leave the decision makers liable personally as well as organizationally for any adverse consequences. 
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In any case, some people such as myself find that a technique that uses research based upon aborted fetal tissue, and then intentionally modifies the way that the body functions on a genetic level is contrary to how God intended us to live.  People with such religious objections should not be forced to take the injection any more than those who are advised to avoid the injections for health reasons.  A right to religious accommodation ought to be recognized and upheld.