I'm glad you touched on San Antonio, but this is a HUGE problem in Texas. The regulations are set by the TCCB, and it's honestly a mess for families, and it particularly effects the top Catholic schools in my area. I'm in Houston, and I know that D/FW area also has huge problems with not allowing faithful into schools because they aren't…
I'm glad you touched on San Antonio, but this is a HUGE problem in Texas. The regulations are set by the TCCB, and it's honestly a mess for families, and it particularly effects the top Catholic schools in my area. I'm in Houston, and I know that D/FW area also has huge problems with not allowing faithful into schools because they aren't vaccinated. So many families are left with homeschooling if they want their Catholic Faith to be integrated into their children's education. As a note, we homeschool by choice, but if something happens to me, what are the options for my kids? Public school or to jump through hoops for medical exemptions for all my children?
I think it's funny that people who are opposed to children unvaccinated in their schools are unwilling to speak up. Here we have the opposite problem. It's a shame people are made to feel less because of medical complications from vaccines. I'm so proud of some of our clergy who have fought for these people and called physicians in order to find ones even willing to write medical exemptions, as most aren't. One example was a family moved from out of state where the doctor had witnessed the reaction, and TCCB required an in state doctor, who said they needed to put the kid in a life threatening state in order to write the exemption. They finally found a doctor willing to call the previous out of state physician, and then write an exemption. Do the bishops realize the lengths people are going to? California's medical exemption requirements are worse, but they are pretty bad here, and law makers won't change it since public schools allow several types of vaccine objections.
I've met so many families in bad positions due to our own situation. I have had one child with a severe enough vaccine reaction for a medical exception (at least for that one vaccine), and another who until recently also qualified for an MMR vaccine exception until Merek recently changed their insert on who should not receive the vaccine (I think doctors would still write her one). I have 2 children with severe enough issues to warrant exceptions, but, can I get them for all my kids? Texas law states that in order for a medical exemption, the child has to react. So while a doctor would write exemptions for my 2 kids, what about the ones who haven't reacted. Should I be forced to subject them to the same harm my others suffered? Why, when we've seen such issues in our family, would I subject my kids to these vaccines? No sane person would! So many families are in my shoes where they can get a vaccine exception for one kid, but not for the rest. One doctor suggested showing the closeness of the DNA and arguing that the child shouldn't get it due to likely reactions, but who knows if the TCCB would accept that. We might try that route if it ever becomes necessary, but should I be put in a position to jump through hoops? (P.S. we also avoid food dye 😉)
Lastly, what I found missing from the article is the parents who at their own expense fly to Japan to vaccinate their kids simply to send them to Catholic schools. Perhaps this is just a Texas thing? The vaccines are so much safer so the data corresponds with the common good without the harm and consequences the vaccines here have on the population. Why don't the bishops care enough about the common good to promote a change to these vaccines being readily available in the USA for the common good? We can let doctors inform and people choose which vaccines their patients want. I imagine few would choose Merek's combination MMR over the Japanese versions.
I'm glad you touched on San Antonio, but this is a HUGE problem in Texas. The regulations are set by the TCCB, and it's honestly a mess for families, and it particularly effects the top Catholic schools in my area. I'm in Houston, and I know that D/FW area also has huge problems with not allowing faithful into schools because they aren't vaccinated. So many families are left with homeschooling if they want their Catholic Faith to be integrated into their children's education. As a note, we homeschool by choice, but if something happens to me, what are the options for my kids? Public school or to jump through hoops for medical exemptions for all my children?
I think it's funny that people who are opposed to children unvaccinated in their schools are unwilling to speak up. Here we have the opposite problem. It's a shame people are made to feel less because of medical complications from vaccines. I'm so proud of some of our clergy who have fought for these people and called physicians in order to find ones even willing to write medical exemptions, as most aren't. One example was a family moved from out of state where the doctor had witnessed the reaction, and TCCB required an in state doctor, who said they needed to put the kid in a life threatening state in order to write the exemption. They finally found a doctor willing to call the previous out of state physician, and then write an exemption. Do the bishops realize the lengths people are going to? California's medical exemption requirements are worse, but they are pretty bad here, and law makers won't change it since public schools allow several types of vaccine objections.
I've met so many families in bad positions due to our own situation. I have had one child with a severe enough vaccine reaction for a medical exception (at least for that one vaccine), and another who until recently also qualified for an MMR vaccine exception until Merek recently changed their insert on who should not receive the vaccine (I think doctors would still write her one). I have 2 children with severe enough issues to warrant exceptions, but, can I get them for all my kids? Texas law states that in order for a medical exemption, the child has to react. So while a doctor would write exemptions for my 2 kids, what about the ones who haven't reacted. Should I be forced to subject them to the same harm my others suffered? Why, when we've seen such issues in our family, would I subject my kids to these vaccines? No sane person would! So many families are in my shoes where they can get a vaccine exception for one kid, but not for the rest. One doctor suggested showing the closeness of the DNA and arguing that the child shouldn't get it due to likely reactions, but who knows if the TCCB would accept that. We might try that route if it ever becomes necessary, but should I be put in a position to jump through hoops? (P.S. we also avoid food dye 😉)
Lastly, what I found missing from the article is the parents who at their own expense fly to Japan to vaccinate their kids simply to send them to Catholic schools. Perhaps this is just a Texas thing? The vaccines are so much safer so the data corresponds with the common good without the harm and consequences the vaccines here have on the population. Why don't the bishops care enough about the common good to promote a change to these vaccines being readily available in the USA for the common good? We can let doctors inform and people choose which vaccines their patients want. I imagine few would choose Merek's combination MMR over the Japanese versions.