Newsom orders COVID vaccines for eligible students, the first K-12 school mandate in nation

[BigmanPigman]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-01/newsom-sets-covid-vaccine-mandate-across-california-schools

In the first such action in the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a mandate Friday requiring all eligible public and private schoolchildren in California to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the state expects to affect millions of students. The mandate would take effect for grades 7 through 12 as soon as the semester following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the vaccine for children ages 12 and older, Newsom said. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade would be phased in after the vaccine is formally approved for younger children.

The mandate could take effect for students 12 and older as early as January 2022 if there is full federal approval for a COVID-19 vaccine for that age range, the governor said in remarks at James Denman Middle School in San Francisco. “There’s still a struggle to get to where we need to be,” Newsom said about the effort to contain the pandemic. “And that means we need to do more, and we need to do better.” Individuals as young as 12 have been able to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since May. The vaccine became widely available under emergency authorization for people age 16 and over last spring after early supply shortages eased, and received full approval from the FDA in late August. Children between 12 to 15 have been receiving the vaccine under emergency authorization in May.

Unlike other routine childhood vaccines, the governor’s plan would allow parents to cite personal beliefs in refusing to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. The personal belief exemption must be granted because the new vaccination requirement is being imposed through a regulatory process, rather than through the Legislature. State lawmakers can later decide to eliminate the personal belief exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine if they choose to do so.

Parents who don’t have a medical exemption nor submit a personal belief waiver will not be allowed to enroll students in in-person classes on campus unless they are vaccinated. Unvaccinated students will have the option of enrolling in a fully online school, attending independent-study programs offered by school districts or be homeschooled. It will be up to schools and school districts to enforce the mandate, as they do with other required vaccines, including those for hepatitis B, tetanus, mumps, measles, polio and chickenpox. The governor said he is simply applying the same standard for the COVID-19 vaccine.

[Mr.Bill]

1. What disturbs me is people, even in my own family

are saying their child doesn't want to get the vaccine, like that's who has the final word. When I was a child, my opinion on vaccines was not asked for.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I was a teacher and I think those kids are just

reiterating what their loser parents are telling them. That seems to be the case with most of the students, in fact most students don't care one way or the other but if you explain it to them they have no problem getting vaxxed or wearing masks, etc. Polls have shown this to be the case in most school districts. This all comes down to the BS their parents are saying and acting and influencing them.

[brush]

3. Any parent saying that is full of it. Kids don't make decisions...

like that in a household. Parents do. That sounds like something coming out of a trumper parent trying to pass blame on the kids. And the same parents have gotten their kids vaccinated for measles, rubella, small pox and all the rest of the vaccines needed for them to go school before this pandemic came up. They've just fallen for trump's brainwashing foolishness.