Why would schools refuse to accept them? The only ones at risk would be the other students who weren’t vaccinated, whose parents have already accepted the risk by choosing not to vaccinate.
I imagine they’re saying having unvaccinated kids around each other would speed and outbreak into an epidemic.
I don’t have a dog in this fight but I also had the same question.
Aside from that, seems to me that people who are able to keep their kids out of public schools are the smart ones.
It’s very apparent that you did not live back in the 50’s during the polio epidemic like I did. It was devastating and pure horror.
The only thing that stopped it was mandatory vaccinations at school.
Go believe in your little fantasy world but a similar horror will appear on the horizon due to those who do not vaccinate.
The minimal risk from vaccines is no greater than the risk the kid takes by walking out the door of their house and going anywhere. I would think the mentality that does not want their kid protected from disease also has the opposite fear of germs. Why would they want to send their kid to school?
I would be far more concerned about the indoctrination going on at the schools than about vaccinations happening at the doctor’s office.
Re: “Why would schools refuse to accept them? The only ones at risk would be the other students who weren’t vaccinated, whose parents have already accepted the risk by choosing not to vaccinate.”
A valid point, however, if the public schools allowed unvaccinated students to enroll, however illogical it may be, I could see the school districts being sued because some kid, vaccinated or not, getting sick for whatever reason, then parents blaming the school district because they allow unvaccinated students to enroll.
Isn’t the military the same way - you have to be vaccinated because close proximity spreads diseases much more quickly, plus the exposure to foreign diseases?
Most civil war deaths among soldiers (3 out of 4) was from sickness/disease. This was not only due to unsanitary conditions, but also because you had thousands of young men thrown together who had never been exposed to many of the communicable diseases that men from the cities had already experienced. There was no such thing as vaccinations yet and so thousands died because they had no anti-bodies built up to resist.
In WA state, public school students are required to be vaccinated in order to attend school. (HPV is not required) Parents may choose to be exempt from vaccines but to get the exemption they must meet with a doctor about vaccines before the exemption will be granted. If an outbreak of any illness comes to the school/community, un-vaccinated students and staff will not be allowed to attend school until the outbreak is over.
Not many exemptions at my school anymore since the Doctor meeting requirement came in.
Excellent question and one I've thought about for years..