Unless the children are having sex in the aisles of the classroom, which wouldn’t surprise me in some areas of the country, the state has no business requiring this for school attendance.
Well, I work for a school district, and while it is not happening in the school aisles, it is happening a lot everywhere else... The funny thing is that I agree with those who dislike the mandate - so do I. I also disagree with the mandate for the Hep-B vaccinations. So I am not going to argue that the mandate was a good idea - even Perry agrees that it wasn't. But I do think the vaccine is a good thing, and finding a way to make it widely available and affordable was a good idea. So I guess my only argument with people on this thread is with those who seem to want to claim that Gardasil is somehow inherently evil because it prevents a sexually transmitted disease.
I think Perry will probably suffer some short-term damage from this, but I don't think it will be a major issue in the election. I do think that Bachmann managed to finally eliminate herself, though.