RE: Questions for Teachers: One Mother's Frustration.
Moveable deadlines in any circumstance is maddening, but when it's a teacher doling them out to kids, that's just absurd. First of all, many kids won't remember a verbal change like that, ntm the parental involvement as you pointed out. Ugh.
Notarizing is a new development. I suppose it's different with different schools in different states and whatnot. But like, about a decade ago when I started working in healthcare, I am of the the-big-ones-I-have-had-for-years-are-proven-safe-and-for-applicable-diseases vaccines, I'm okay with (read: I'll take an MMR, Tdap, and Tetanus shot just fine, thanks), but ones-that-I-am-not-in-a-risk-group-for-and/or-have-known-issues vaccines, I avoid. So in healthcare terms, they usually want workers to have a hep B vaccine series, because if you're drawing blood or otherwise coming into contact, you're at risk. Except, I wasn't a phlebotomist (the person who specifically works in a big setting like a hospital whose job it is to draw blood all day), I was a ward clerk, a paper pusher. I dealt with charts and phones at the nurses' station, I wasn't at risk. So I did piles of research and was hoping I'd have an out but not sure how definitive the requirement was. I walked into the DON's office and got a sentence out before she was like, "Oh, do you want a waiver? Here you go, sign." The end.
But then, at the hospital job I had later, it specifically is THE LAW that you can't be forced to take a flu shot by your employer (also one I don't want; it's new every year so you don't really know how safe it is if they borked it up AND I have the immune system of a God, so I'm not a high risk). One of the docs completely forced me to do it under Dire Threats. Again, I was a damn paper pusher, but uh huh. That's the only time I've ever had a flu shot. And it was given by the most incompetent RN I have ever met in my fucking life who had no idea how to give an injection. When I switched to night shift, I offered to give it to a coworker who needed one. My shift supervisor knew I was trained as an MA and ergo I know how to give injections, but she still thought I would be bad at it, because my job was paper pushing. I gave the shot and coworker was like, "THAT WAS THE BEST MOST PAINLESS SHOT I'VE EVER HAD" and supervisor was all impressed. I'm like, THAT'S HOW EVERY SHOT SHOULD BE, FFS ...but I digress. XD
There have been too many issues in our lives to continue them. Inari became very, very ill after a Pertussis vaxx, even though I was a stay at home mom at the time and he had no outside contact.
Then Little Willow had a very large and painful Hematoma develop at a DT sight, quickly followed by a horrific fever and seizures. At only 18 months old. That hemotoma lasted over a month. DT was not, apparently, "proven safe" for little girls.
And my sister in law had her whole face paralyzed by guillian barr disease, caused by another vaccine.
So, yeah, we are a non-vaxx family now. But that wasn't the point of the post.😉
Oh yeah, totally. There are known contraindications and allergies and the like, and you should totally be able to do that when you know it's a thing in your family! That's kinda the point of the "herd immunity" - so when people really can't because they've had bad reactions, like your kids, they are still somewhat protected by herd immunity.