[kailbo]

This is insanity.

How would an unvaccinated kid create a threat to a vaccinated kid?

[Arcy]

Just one more reason among so many to Home School. Your kids will be smarter and healthier.

[Tax-chick]

I think if people want their children to attend the government’s schools, they have to follow the government’s rules.

[Dr. Sivana]

The chicken pox vaccine wears off after a number of years, and now we have problems with “vaccinated” college kids getting it.

It is better to get your chicken pox as a small fry.

Young children are not normally at risk for hepatitis B, and the first generation of that vaccine had a high rate of nasty side effects, including bowel detachment.

[DoughtyOne]

It is a public health and Children's rights issue. And there is some debate as to what those Children's rights actually are. Should they have a right to opt out of the vaccine to avoid certain reactions? While I do support vaccination, it sure doesn't help to know that our education systems is mixed up on this at any level.

[Tired of Taxes]

Prince George's has struggled to get its 131,000 students immunized for chicken pox and hepatitis B, as mandated by the state.

Is the chicken pox shot mandated in most states now?

[mrmargaritaville]

gee I wonder if they are going to make the same demands of illegal immigrants?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I thought chicken pox was was what you got when you were vaccinated against small pox.

[MacDorcha]

Pung

[Vision]

PG County Ping.

[napscoordinator]

The shots are free too. What are the reasons for the parents not doing this? They need more information. It is pretty easy to get the shots. My kids get them yearly whatever they need. Last thing I want is for them to get sick because my wife and I did not do our job. One guy at my command was sent back to the states because he refused to give the shots to his kids. Do you think this will hurt his career??? A big possibility.

[Poundstone]

What legitimate excuse could parents have for not getting their child immunized?

[SamuraiScot]

chicken pox and hepatitis B

Let's see. Tossing parents in jail for not getting their kids a vaccine for, respectively:

1) A disease that's virtually harmless when you get it, for which the vaccine doesn't work, long-term.

2) A disease that you can't get unless you take recreational drugs intravenously or get sodomized on a regular basis. A vaccination against HepB wouldn't be a necessary precaution for most kids.

But the important thing is that numerous local contractors depend for their income on giving vaccines and boosters against trivial or obscure diseases, and public school children represent a key market segment. So their contacts and friends on the school board and the local family court bar have no choice but to stand in solidarity with them.

[Unassuaged]

This is NOT new.

[metmom]

So much for opting out.....

You knew that option would go sooner or later.

[Anonymous Rex]

Where I live it is all local school districtsrun by locals and funded by local votes. No votes for levies, no funds.

If they tried this here there would be a revolt.

[metmom]

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[CholeraJoe]

But Gardasil will turn our daughters into SLUTS!</sarc>