According to the law, January 2 was the deadline for all students through ninth grade to be vaccinated against hepatitis B and chickenpox. Approximately 12,000 students have failed to comply with the new rules according to Bill Reinhard, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Education. Of that group, the students who showed up for class on January 22 were suspended from school.

Carol Mowen of Washington County Public Schools, says once a noncompliant student has been absent for ten days, “it becomes an issue of truancy,” such a situation poses an issue of liability to the parents for breaking compulsory schooling laws.

So basically, at this point parents are considered to be breaking the law because they are protecting their children from possible side effects of vaccines.

Many vaccines contain toxic substances and are highly dangerous. The process of getting vaccinated should be a choice, not a requirement of the law as far as I’m concerned. After all, this is America, land of the free.

Washington County Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Instruction Donna Hanlin said that before taking such drastic measures as charging parents with truancy, officials are interested in discovering what could be preventing the parents from getting the children vaccinated.

What officials should do is a little bit of research and see for themselves how truly dangerous some vaccines are. The sad part is they may even already know.

Having an opinion on something is a right that everyone has no matter how ludicrous it may be.  But using methods of threat & force to get people to adhere to what you think is right is strong-arming in my opinion and should be outlawed itself.

Let’s face facts. These people aren’t engaging in criminal activity. They are simply protecting their child, which is something every parent has the right to do.