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Question: Homeschooling questions regarding vaccine exemptions?

I live in California. I will be Homeschooling my children and since my son is nearly school age, begining to explore each Homeschooling option.

Enrolling in a private school satellite program, taking "independent study": Can they make requirements of us regarding vaccinations? Will I have to provide them with an exemption? Since they are a private school, can they refuse to accept my exemption?

Thanks for any help!

Answer: Only public schools are legally required to honor vaccine exemptions in California. Private schools are allowed to have their own rules, and each private school may have a different policy.

Contact the private schools you're looking at. Because you're looking at essentially "distance learning", it seems absurd that the school would really care. The reasons that private schools deny exemptions are usually over concerns that your child could get sick and spread it to the other children.

Be firm with the school, too. Some may try to bully you out of an exemption, or they may make claims that private schools are required to vaccinate (when in reality, they do have the option of accepting exemptions). You may prefer not to work with a school that acts like this anyway, though.

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