Posted on 04/14/2015 1:22:45 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Washington state school district pulled 143 students who lacked documentation proving they had received required immunizations from classrooms on Monday, in a first-in-the-state clamp-down triggered by a recent measles epidemic.
The Spokane Public Schools, the state's second-largest district, made the decision after a measles epidemic in which more than 150 people fell ill across the United States, and a whooping cough outbreak in the state's eastern city.
"(The students) stay out of school until they show compliance," district spokesman Kevin Morrison said. He said the district was the first in the state to take such action.
All U.S. states require certain vaccines for students for diseases such as mumps, rubella, tetanus or polio, but school immunization laws grant exemptions to children for medical reasons, including an inhibited immune system.
Almost all states also grant religious exemptions against immunizations, with 20 states also allowing philosophical exemptions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Parents who want to opt out of school shots on philosophical, religious or medical grounds in Washington state, which saw measles cases in the recent epidemic, though none in Spokane public schools, must file a state-mandated waiver with the district, Morrison said.
About 500 of the district's 30,000 students lack the waivers, down from some 5,000 students flagged in November as having missing or unclear immunization status, Morrison said.
In February, officials started instructing parents that their children needed vaccinations or waivers and held a series of health clinics across the region, though the efforts have been complicated by school transfers and old record-keeping.
"It's a lot of hand-holding, it's labor intensive," Morrison said.
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There’s also the fact that a vaccinated individual doesn’t know exactly when their vaccine wears off. It differs from person to person.
I’d prefer that they remove students who entered the country illegally or are the children of invaders.
Anti vaccine crowds are really funny when they blame unvaccinated 3rd worlders for diseases, while simultaneously opining that vaccines aren’t needed for their own whelps.
I agree with you about illegals not being in our schools. Seems like a fine opportunity for the Border Patrol to round them up.
That said, I like how the anti vaccination crowd never seems to be curious how third worlders have these 1950s diseases that have been unknown here in recent decades.
There must be a reason,,,, something we do that they don’t.
Vaccines,,,
the right to choose...oh wait, that only applies when a Christian hating doctor can make money by killing unborn children.
Yea...in your your eyes the problem is Christian families who trust God rather than sodomites for their health. Now that is funny!
A kid with a compromised immune system should not be in public school anyway, so the exemption seems strange
So, you “trust” corporations that invested in the Nazis and have killed numerous children with untested “vaccines”? Do you even KNOW how many babies died before they recalled the Hep B vaccine???? Why are there no long term studies ever done on any of the vaccines before they are unleashed onto the little guinea pig children?????
Why are there limits on the amount of money to be collected on brain damages/death related to vaccines, and why are the million dollar lawsuits which are WON by parents of vaccine induced Autism-—hidden from the public??? Why no debate on the “safety” of vaccines-—why are all scientists destroyed or vilified if they “question” the corporations and government mandating drugging children?????
Why are the studies which prove unvaccinated children are healthier and more easily able to fight off infections than vaccinated, immune-comprimised children. That the unnatural injections of toxins actually cause auto-immune diseases and possibly multiple adult diseases.
RFJ, jr. is correct—that mandatory shots are nothing but a fascist, Marxist system. But then—so is the “public” “education” system—which is graduating ignorant useful idiots by the billions. (Group thinkers who Know Nothing and believe whatever the Crony-Capitalists state.)
The idea that government “KNOWS BEST” has been tried and proven EVIL EVERY TIME!!!!! Do you not understand the word “Every”!!!!???????
Study history——and when did injecting toxins into a healthy baby produce healthier people???? Our most vaccinated children are the most sickly bunch of children who have damaged brains/Autism spectrum unheard of prior to the 80s when vaccinations TRIPLED ;and were given to YOUNGER AND YOUNGER children who can not eject toxins from thier little bodies.
Why not SEPARATE the MMR????????????????? oh-—because of MONEY and EFFICIENCY-—it doesn’t matter than a few children die are are mentally incapacitated because of the unnatural infusion of all the toxins which overload their little bodies.
Believe government!!!!!!! Believe billion dollar Malthusian (godless) corporations who believe there are 4 billion people too many on earth?????? No Thank You!!!!!
No evil there!!! Shut you eyes!!!!——but do know that ALL the Founders stated that government IS EVIL and NEVER to be trusted. Put your trust in God only and get your children out of the indoctrination system-—and throw out the TV.
Well, there are, and that is why if a child gets measles or chickenpox, they stay home from school. It’s also not always obvious that someone is immune compromised either. But that’s why children sick with a contagious disease stay home from school. It may be an annoyance for most, but deadlier for someone who doesn’t have a healthy immune system. Most of this is about hype to get us feeling trusting of the CDC, or get mad at some homeschooled kids. The number of people who voluntarily exempt themselves from actual vaccination is small in comparison to those who aren’t for health reasons. Plus, Petussis vaccines don’t work for all strains.
Cant beat that argument, as much as I am cautious about the children arguments that the state or feds use to justify getting involved, there are time where it has to and yes vaccination is apart of it if they want to go to a public school, and if not there is always home school, that’s an option.
I am not aware of the Hepatitis B vaccine being recalled in the United States. Although I fail to see how such small children, with the exception of either having a Hepatitis infected mother or a major blood transfusion are all that much at risk, but the risk is small given that pregnant women and blood donations are routinely screened for pathogens, including Hepatitis B. Where a whole lot of the spread actually occurs is generally adult/teenage behaviors.
The part where government knows best is when people get on either extreme of blind trust or blind hatred, and don’t examine the merits of what is being claimed by them
Bet none of those 143 were Federally sponsored “illegal aliens” that are infested with anti-biotic resistant TB, measles, scabies, entero virus D68, etc.
You might lose that bet ;-)
Doubt it. The Feds have written the rules so that Fed Law takes precedence over State Law ... otherwise most conservative states would bar the dumping of the “diseased ones” from their schools .... check it out!!!!
Good point! You are probably correct!
What is the order of precedence for the different groups?
Does a TV actress out rank a muslim? A black muslim?
Since gays tend not to breed well, do they have standing in this case?
Pretty funny how the same folks who claim we are over-vaccinated, claim that people from under-vaccinated countries are responsible for drug-resistant strains.
150 people across the US that got measles is an epidemic?
Drug resistance doesn’t have anything to do with vaccination.
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