Suppose a child showed up at kindergarten or in one of the junior grades, armed with a weapon that can severely hurt or even blind his or her fellow students. Would the school not immediately take steps to remove that child to protect the others?
Why, then, is it permissible for unvaccinated children to continue attending schools, thus potentially spreading a highly contagious disease?
Why can this state not adopt a measure as California did: In order to attend a public school of any type, the child must be vaccinated. No exemptions, not even religion-based ones. If the parents’ religion forbids their child to be vaccinated, let them attend a religious school.
Frank Baumann
Snohomish
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