Private schools that do not require kids to be vaccinated? (Plano: exemption, to move)

[moviesandgames]

Originally Posted by dfwanon

For personal reasons, our children are not vaccinated.

We are having trouble finding private schools that do not require all students to be vaccinated.

Are there any such schools in the DFW area?

do you not believe in vaccines?

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by Katana49

It was funny when it was truly a small group, "fringe" members of society, who were against vaccines. Now that this group has gotten larger, it's actually pretty scary that things like the ability to achieve herd immunity may not be able to be achieved if enough people don't get vaccinated. We may be entering into a time where pandemics just don't end, because they'll be able to spread and replicate long enough to where even the initial vaccine against previous variants start to be less effective.

Not just pandemics, but diseases that were completely and totally eradicated in the US in the 20th century are back due to negligent anti-science anti-vaxxers. These entitled idiots have no idea what it was like to live in a time when children regularly died in childhood or suffered lifelong debilitating effects from polio, etc. To give back 100 years of scientific advancement is horrifying.

In 1900, before vaccines and antibiotics, about 1 in every 4 children in the US did not live to age 5. Today the child mortality rate is less than 10 per 1,000. When herd immunization is lost, it puts so many children’s lives at risk (not only the innocent unvaxxed children but also the many, many kids who can’t get certain vaccines due to their other health problems).

[astrohip]

Originally Posted by 4Movingeast

I moved my voter registration from R to D in 2012

Originally Posted by cordata

How do you move your voter registration? In my experience you just choose which party you are voting for at each primary, there is nothing in your voter registration about party affiliation, but there is documentation about which primary you voted in.

You are correct, there is no such thing as "party registration" in Texas.

If and only if, you vote in a primary, they mark you as voted in that primary, because by law, if there is a primary runoff, you can only vote in the same party for that runoff. But it gets cleared immediately after any runoffs. For the general election, and all future elections, you vote however you want. There are records, but they don't affect your voter card or your future voting, in any way.

[platon20]

Next time an anti-vaxxer goes on a rant about vaccines, ask them if they wear their seat belt and then ridicule them for choosing to use a device that kills hundreds of people a year.

[widespreadfan]

I am late to this party. So, there is a state law that says children must have had a Covid-19 vaccine to attend public school in August?

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by widespreadfan

I am late to this party. So, there is a state law that says children must have had a Covid-19 vaccine to attend public school in August?

No, there isn’t. And I’m sure there won’t be until at minimum the vaccines are fully approved.

This poster is talking about all vaccines, not the Covid one. It sounds like their kids have not received ANY of the vaccinations on the childhood immunization schedule (MMR, DTap, Hep, polio, etc).

[widespreadfan]

I am for regular vaccines being required. I just don't think children should be mandated to take the Covid-19 vaccine. We know nothing about long-term side effects.

[moviesandgames]

Originally Posted by widespreadfan

I am for regular vaccines being required. I just don't think children should be mandated to take the Covid-19 vaccine. We know nothing about long-term side effects.

You say long term side effects, but the vaccines atleast Pfizer and Moderna, use MRNA technology and a quick google search tells you this

"mRNA vaccines have been tested in humans before, for at least four infectious diseases: rabies, influenza, cytomegalovirus, and Zika"

so not a new technology at all.

[widespreadfan]

Originally Posted by moviesandgames

You say long term side effects, but the vaccines atleast Pfizer and Moderna, use MRNA technology and a quick google search tells you this

"mRNA vaccines have been tested in humans before, for at least four infectious diseases: rabies, influenza, cytomegalovirus, and Zika"

so not a new technology at all.

I got the Pfizer vaccine myself for Covid-19. I am not a physician or a scientific researcher therefore I know nothing about MRNA technology. Nor have I ever even heard of cytomegalovirus. Do as you want. I will not be vaccinating my young children for Covid-19 anytime soon.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by platon20

Next time an anti-vaxxer goes on a rant about vaccines, ask them if they wear their seat belt and then ridicule them for choosing to use a device that kills hundreds of people a year.

+1. Excellent analogy.