I had the same situation with my son.  We live in NC and I, fortunately, had no
trouble with this.  The school nurse was even helpful on what I should put in
the letter.  Our school also "campaigned" for the vaccines but my son has
Autism and I was not going to do it.  All I did was write a letter stating it
was against my religious beliefs to vaccinate and the nurse put it in his file
with nothing else said about it.  They cannot make him have the vaccine if it
is against your "religious" beliefs.  I was told that if it is a medical reason
they will review it and see if it is exceptable, like they are doctors.  He
would have to be allergic to the vaccine or have had a serious reaction to other
vaccines, and of course, Autism doesn't count to them as a serious reaction.

Erin



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From: maribel danta <maribel@...>
To: EOHarm@yahoogroups.com; Autism-Mercury@...
Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 8:53:04 AM
Subject: [Autism-Mercury] Question about religious exception & medical
exemptions for vaccines

 
Hi All,

My school district has decided it needs to get strict with vaccination
policy. They have sent mass letters out to the middle schools and I'm
guessing the high schools whose records indicated they were missing a few
shots. The main shot really that most are missing is the TDaP vaccine. The
letters were received last week with the ridiculous date of Nov. 12 as the
exclusion date if child has not been vaccinated by then. A friend of mine
who has 2 children affected, one definitely on the spectrum, submitted a
religious exemption letter and was denied by the district. Can they do this?
Who specifically has that right? Does it go before the school board or is it
something that Superintendent directly deals with? I know there was a case
here in Long Island about a year ago where they made this poor woman go
through hell. It's a recession, funds for lawyers are pretty scarce for
many, my friend and I included...

The other question is how would one go about getting a medical exemption. I
will be facing this with my son Gabe next year and need to be prepared.
Apparently God & philosophical & religious views mean nothing when it comes
to my district, so would a DAN doctor be able to help me with this? Do they
have the power to deny a medical exemption too??????

Thanks in advance!

Maribel

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