Anonymous wrote:As one of her constituents I am constantly asking “Why is Mary Cheh spending her efforts on things that are at most a low level priority for Ward 3?” Mary, please focus on overcrowding of ward 3 schools!! Or the fact that Friendship Heights is turning into a ghost town of empty storefronts. Or something of interest to the voters living in your ward. It’s like every other ward has a council member that represents the interests of the voters in that Ward and we have our very own at large council member.

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Anonymous wrote:The HPV vaccine is great. I think we can all acknowledge that. The question is why are we trying to conduct an end around parent instead of educating the,. So we are trying to bully the kids instead of educating the parents. Why?

This just screams of being unnecessary?

Because a not insignificant number of parents are abusive assh#les. Or just want to arbitrarily exercise power over their teen kids. And you need the vaccine before you become sexually active, which is typically when you’re still a minor.

While this is not an issue that majorly impacts Ward 3, it is an issue that impacts kids growing up in low income homes in Wards 7 & 8. You think Trayon White is going to write this legislation and protect those kids? No way. Better to have Cheh on top of this, imho.

Anonymous wrote:The HPV vaccine is great. I think we can all acknowledge that. The question is why are we trying to conduct an end around parent instead of educating the,. So we are trying to bully the kids instead of educating the parents. Why?

This just screams of being unnecessary?

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Anonymous wrote:The proposal would still require consent, just consent from the child not the parent. It would also bring the rules for vaccines in line with the laws for other medical procedures such as birth control or mental health care. It probably won't increase vaccination rates much if at all, but if a competent kid wants to be vaccinated, I'd prefer that they were.

The record reference is to documentation of the vaccine being provided to the school directly if the parent claims an exemption, but the student chooses to get vaccinated on their own. In those cases, rather than alert the parent that child is making their own vaccination decisions, the school gets the information from the physician. That seems reasonable to me, given the threat to students who make choices other than what their parents want.

All in all seems like a good law to me.

That is extremely inappropriate as a school could tell a child you have to get the vaccine and give to them without knowing anything more about the child's health and do serious harm. Age of consent is 18. Vaccines should not be forced, especially that one.

Schools don't give vaccines. The age to consent to medical treatment also isn't universally 18 for all treatment as I pointed out. I also have no idea why the HPV vaccine is especially wrong to give to kids.

BUMP

Schools actually are giving vaccinations at the moment.

Thinking this legislation was not about HPV

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Anonymous wrote:The proposal would still require consent, just consent from the child not the parent. It would also bring the rules for vaccines in line with the laws for other medical procedures such as birth control or mental health care. It probably won't increase vaccination rates much if at all, but if a competent kid wants to be vaccinated, I'd prefer that they were.

The record reference is to documentation of the vaccine being provided to the school directly if the parent claims an exemption, but the student chooses to get vaccinated on their own. In those cases, rather than alert the parent that child is making their own vaccination decisions, the school gets the information from the physician. That seems reasonable to me, given the threat to students who make choices other than what their parents want.

All in all seems like a good law to me.

That is extremely inappropriate as a school could tell a child you have to get the vaccine and give to them without knowing anything more about the child's health and do serious harm. Age of consent is 18. Vaccines should not be forced, especially that one.

Anonymous wrote:The proposal would still require consent, just consent from the child not the parent. It would also bring the rules for vaccines in line with the laws for other medical procedures such as birth control or mental health care. It probably won't increase vaccination rates much if at all, but if a competent kid wants to be vaccinated, I'd prefer that they were.

The record reference is to documentation of the vaccine being provided to the school directly if the parent claims an exemption, but the student chooses to get vaccinated on their own. In those cases, rather than alert the parent that child is making their own vaccination decisions, the school gets the information from the physician. That seems reasonable to me, given the threat to students who make choices other than what their parents want.

All in all seems like a good law to me.

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Anonymous wrote:The proposal would still require consent, just consent from the child not the parent. It would also bring the rules for vaccines in line with the laws for other medical procedures such as birth control or mental health care. It probably won't increase vaccination rates much if at all, but if a competent kid wants to be vaccinated, I'd prefer that they were.

The record reference is to documentation of the vaccine being provided to the school directly if the parent claims an exemption, but the student chooses to get vaccinated on their own. In those cases, rather than alert the parent that child is making their own vaccination decisions, the school gets the information from the physician. That seems reasonable to me, given the threat to students who make choices other than what their parents want.

All in all seems like a good law to me.

If it is not impacting vaccination rates, it is hard to justify. Why not within the current laws simply impress upon parents the importance of this vaccine. I remember the bus stop ads years ago, but have not seen any recently.

Anonymous wrote:The proposal would still require consent, just consent from the child not the parent. It would also bring the rules for vaccines in line with the laws for other medical procedures such as birth control or mental health care. It probably won't increase vaccination rates much if at all, but if a competent kid wants to be vaccinated, I'd prefer that they were.

The record reference is to documentation of the vaccine being provided to the school directly if the parent claims an exemption, but the student chooses to get vaccinated on their own. In those cases, rather than alert the parent that child is making their own vaccination decisions, the school gets the information from the physician. That seems reasonable to me, given the threat to students who make choices other than what their parents want.

All in all seems like a good law to me.