No Shots No School
In 1998 a medical journal suggested a link between vaccines and autism, which started a radical movement between not vaccinating and vaccinating students (Healy). Ultimately, when a child is brought into this world a parent has a massive decision on whether to vaccinate or not. In some schools, students have been prohibited due to the possibility that they could expose those that are vaccinated. However, a group of parents has become fearful that their child can become ill due to vaccinations. Subsequently how should schools handle protecting vaccinated students vs. those who are against all forms of vaccinations? Because there is no specific link to Autism or other harmful effects and the benefits of vaccinations are supported, schools should require …show more content…
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss received her Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in UC Berkeley. In the past few years, numerous states have considered – or passed – laws tightening exemption procedures.
Washington, Oregon, and California have each passed educational requirements (Reiss). The idea was created by health scholar Ross Silverman, “an affirmative duty on the part of the guardian of the child seeking exemption to hold an exemption-specific conversation with a health care provider, and then to present evidence of such a conversation to exemption-granting authorities” (Silverman 19). Silverman throws around the idea of a firmer requirement that avoids just a parental signature. Parents have to take their children to a doctor’s office to have them vaccinated, why should not non-vaccinating parents have to do the same thing to get exemption from the requirement.
So what is a doctor to do when a child shows up to their office showing signs of measles, yet has not had the vaccination? Doctors are sworn to protect sick children, but what if it
In 1998 a medical journal suggested a link between vaccines and autism, which started a radical movement between not vaccinating and vaccinating students (Healy). Ultimately, when a child is brought into this world a parent has a massive decision on whether to vaccinate or not. In some schools, students have been prohibited due to the possibility that they could expose those that are vaccinated. However, a group of parents has become fearful that their child can become ill due to vaccinations. Subsequently how should schools handle protecting vaccinated students vs. those who are against all forms of vaccinations? Because there is no specific link to Autism or other harmful effects and the benefits of vaccinations are supported, schools should require …show more content…
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss received her Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in UC Berkeley. In the past few years, numerous states have considered – or passed – laws tightening exemption procedures.
Washington, Oregon, and California have each passed educational requirements (Reiss). The idea was created by health scholar Ross Silverman, “an affirmative duty on the part of the guardian of the child seeking exemption to hold an exemption-specific conversation with a health care provider, and then to present evidence of such a conversation to exemption-granting authorities” (Silverman 19). Silverman throws around the idea of a firmer requirement that avoids just a parental signature. Parents have to take their children to a doctor’s office to have them vaccinated, why should not non-vaccinating parents have to do the same thing to get exemption from the requirement.
So what is a doctor to do when a child shows up to their office showing signs of measles, yet has not had the vaccination? Doctors are sworn to protect sick children, but what if it