Summary
Parents and advocates fear a rollback of school vaccine mandates under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), citing his anti-vaccine rhetoric and potential policy influence.
Experts warn Kennedy could lower vaccination rates by undermining trust, altering vaccine approval processes, or defunding federal vaccine programs. Such changes risk disease outbreaks, particularly for vulnerable children.
Critics also anticipate school board battles over vaccine mandates and highlight the impact of misinformation targeting minority communities.
Parents worry these shifts could have “life-or-death consequences” for children with chronic illnesses.
Can’t help but think that’s the point - to give parents more reason NOT to send their kids to school, or at least make it more hostile to do so. More interest in voucher programs is already a thing, and it was enacted in a district in Georgia with absolutely expected and hilarious (not for the kids) results. But the less interest there is in public vs private schools, the easier it will be to throw any talk of equity in education, let alone instruction
Make private schools the “reasonable” option, then Jack up the prices when families have divested from public, and then it’s the only option - at a price no one in their tax bracket can afford
(I do not support this, it’s just my doom and gloom from all the attacks on schools from the Magats)
The real question is why do we need a mandate for parents to want to vaccinate their children? They don’t love their children enough to do it anyway?
Because that mandate is there to protect other families, children, and immunocompromised people. Vaccines only work if enough people get them.
Because a lot of parents are really fuckin dumb…
And if you removed a mandate, too many people are going to think that it was because there is some potential danger to it.
Can’t wait to catch giga measles from some disgusting slop hog of a parent, who caught it from their disgusting mole rat of a kid, who caught it at the disgusting cess pit of a school. I’m going to cut my head off on the razor wire fence
Came here to say exactly this.
Hey man…leave the kid out of it. Kids rely on their parents for their health and habits, it’s not their fault they weren’t vaccinated!
