And if your kid is vaccinated, exactly how does sitting next to someone who hasn't been vaccinated and becomes infected harm your child? Your child is immune because they have been vaccinated. Stupidity on this forum abounds. I guess because you feel obliged to obey nanny state laws you think they should force everyone at the point of a gun. BTW, I am all for vaccinations, my daughter had them all, I grew up when about the only vaccination was for small pox and then when I was in HS the polio vaccine came along. I caught all the child hood diseases, so did my brother and most of the kids we know, so I believe in them. However, I still think parents should have control over the lives of their children. If they want to opt out so be it. It isn't hurting the ones who do get vaccinated.
Either you believe that vaccinations work or you don't. If they don't work and you believe some unvaccinated child will infect your child what is the good of having them?
Use your brains people, vaccinations work, therefore your children are safe from the "horrible" children who are not vaccinated.
Use your brain, calex. No vaccine works 100% of the time. They offer a measure of protection, but no vaccine is fool-proof. Particularly against fools who won’t vaccinate their children.
I, too, believe that parents should have control over their children and the issues that affect them. To that end, parents should be able to decide how to educate their kids.
If they choose to send them to public school (or most private schools), then those parents should, obviously, expect to follow the requirements for enrollment.
If they don’t want the kid to dress in a manner deemed appropriate by the school, or follow the rules of conduct expected by the school, or be immunized as required by the school, then the in-charge parent is free to find another way to educate said child.
That’s the American way.