Again untrue.
One must REQUEST an affidavit from the State printed with your child's name.
You must have it NOTARIZED.
You must give it to the school (and hope they keep up with it.)
You must do this EVERY 2 years.
You can only object on moral or religious grounds, or get a medical exemption from your doctor.
The parent has no way to say "I do not feel this procedure is in the best medical interests of my child at this time" or simply "I do not consent"
Which is something you should have the ability to do in a representative Republic.
I can't believe the amount of people who would blindly send their child into a room, arm extended, waiting to be injected with a compound with such a relatively short track-record.
No, true.
I know this because my parents were completely against innoculations, and I was an opt-out kid until I got measles (from a illegal immigrant kid, no less) and my parents changed their tune.
The form (available from the nurse, and was notarized by the school secretary) had a check box that said "matter of concience" or "medical" and had check boxes for each innoculation you didn't want.
That was it.
It's not a big deal.
And yes, we had to do it several times, probably every couple of years.
This is my problem. I think there are too many mandated vaccines right now. I didn't start really researching vaccines until my daughter got brain damage at 6 weeks old, and she had already had some shots (I think for hepatitis).
I'm on the online groups for parents of special needs kids, lots of them with autism. I don't necessarily think vaccines caused autism, but reading the information about vaccines that have been posted makes you really think twice about vaccines. I definitely support more long term study of the side effects of vaccines.
I also really don't think chicken pox should be a mandated vaccine. Not many children die from chicken pox. If your child is at a high risk from dying from it, then get the vaccine. One of my daughters was high risk from dying from it, so my children all got the vaccine.
Polio and measles are different. There were real epidemics of those diseases, and they caused real problems.
If there was ever another small pox epidemic, that would be something else. My daughter is high risk for having complications from that vaccine, so we have a plan to keep her from getting it unless she is exposed.
I think it has to be a pretty serious outbreak (meaning lots of people, and very serious complications) to mandate making a vaccine mandatory.