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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Passing a law will not make teachers show up at work or students show up at school.

The 10% unvaxxed teachers are just not going to do it.  Can they be replaced? -- maybe not.  Accepting weekly testing seems like a good compromise.

Demanding vaccinations for age 12+ students in wards 7 and 8 is going nowhere.  The vaccination rate for adults in those wards is something like 30%.  Unvaxxed adults are not going to vaccinate their children.  And teenage children are not known for cheerful compliance with adults' requests.  Who is going to drag an unruly 16 year old to the doctor?

Are you willing to turn away 70% of middle and high schools students in wards 7 and 8?  Bad optics to say the least.  And it would just not be right.

Reality says you cannot successfully impose a vaccination requirement on DC public school students.  Passing a law will not change that.

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I agree with most of what you are saying, but your "reality" is missing that in reality we have mandated other vaccinations, and the students in Wards 7 and 8 somehow managed to satisfy those.  So either their parents take them to get the vaccinations or they otherwise get them (through other services).  
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Very different circumstances for early childhood vaccines. The kids are young, the vaccines are convincingly proven to be safe.  Here the parents are too suspicious or disengaged to get themselves vaccinated. No good parent with that viewpoint is going to vaccinate their teenage children.  And the kids are probably just as suspicious.  You cannot sell vaccinations to this group.  Just not going to go for it.  And the kids are not going to show up for bogus remote learning, either.

This fight would demonstrate that the non-vaxxers can win.  Don't take that chance.
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Eh.  You just put the vaccine clinic at school and vaccinate all the kids.  DC allows kids to be vaccinated without parental consent. [/quote]

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