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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s odd is that all the private colleges require vaccinations for basically everything…way more than what private k-12 require.

Maybe there is a way to claim some exemption…our kids are vaccinated, so it wasn’t an issue…but it was surprising as to how exhaustive the requirements.[/quote]

One brand of anti-vaxxing is to delay vaccinations. Trump has jumped on this bandwagon, that's why he talks about "changing the vaccine schedule." This is a big demand of anti-vaxxers. They want to schedule to allow people to delay vaccines, wait longer between different doses, etc., without repercussions for things like school enrollment.

I also think the schools with the lowest vaccine rates tend to also have UMC or wealthy families who do not want or expect their kids to pursue a standard American career path through the most elite school they can get into. Many of these kids may go to college outside the US or go to schools that are vaccine optional, of which there are many.

For families that are already wealthy, many don't actually dream of sending their kids to Yale or Stanford. Remember, people who disagree with vaccination requirements are, by definition, anti-conformist.[/quote]

I don’t know what you are talking about…Bill Gates sent his kids to Stanford…Jeff Bezos has one at MIT, Elon Musk at Brown (who knows where the younger brood goes)…they definitely expect their kids to attend top schools.

You have plenty of super wealthy non-Asian Americans paying college counselors $100k+to get their kids into these schools.[/quote]

You get that not all rich people, right? Those people all vaccinated their kids (except maybe Musk, he's crazy). We're talking about rich people who don't vaccinate their kids.[/quote]

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