Falling vaccination rates drain millions from California classrooms
The bill for “doing your own research” and "just asking questions" is now coming straight out of California classrooms.
California schools are losing millions of dollars because some parents have decided they know better than decades of medical science.
Over the last two years, more than 1,000 California public schools were audited for low immunization compliance, resulting in dozens of districts forfeiting over $2.2 million in state funding when students failed to meet vaccination requirements. These penalties hit large districts like Los Angeles Unified and San Francisco Unified, as well as small communities. No school district in the United States can afford to lose funding, especially not over bad science. These shortfalls are the predictable result of parents opting their kids out of our longstanding social and moral compact over vaccination.
Now, the result of parents ignoring decades of science, rejecting public health guidance, and determining they know better based on feelings is not just showing up in skyrocketing measles numbers. It is cutting school funding and making sure the children are even dumber than their parents.
The bill for “doing your own research” and “just asking questions” is now coming straight out of California classrooms.