“Is there anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me…”

I am on the verge of implosion at the moment. Brace yourselves because this is going to be a bumpy blog.

Today, I walked into my School’s District office for the second time this week. I brought in my letter of intent to homeschool my son as well as the formal paperwork required to formally withdraw him from the school district. I had a hard time stomaching the process of asking for permission to homeschool my child from the same school who’s “hands are tied” banning him from attending. It makes me physically sick. By the way, anytime a school official used that quote “our hands our tied”, you better believe I told them their hands as a school are the only things tied. As human beings, their hands are not tied. This is their freedom just as much as it is mine and my child’s. I asked the Homeschooling resource officer if she had any contacts for local co-ops to offer families that are forced and choose to homeschool. She shook her head and of course said no, but they had a list of websites for homeschooling associations across the country. I nodded and suggested that maybe we could collaborate so that in the future, as an educational institution they would be able to provide EVERY SINGLE student with resources. After all, education is fundamental to every child, so why would it matter where they were educated? She actually accepted my offer, and I plan on returning to the District office again, to ensure other families have resources in the future.

Here is where things get bumpy. Beside the fact that children who live with other diseases that can be deadly, are allowed to attend school with no one being able to know their diseases, I just learned that homeless children do not have to provide any immunization documentation to attend public schools. They are entitled to their right of public education. WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! Apparently, the idea of “living in a van down by the river” has become a reality to be able to send you child to school. My child would be able to attend school, if he had no address!!

PLEASE TELL ME HOW THIS IS ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH????? Someone please tell me how the massive concern of unvaccinated children in schools is that as a child who doesn’t have any illness, can make immunocompromised children sick? How is it that somehow those same immunocompromised children are protected because a child doesn’t have a home? How is it humanely possible to ever eradicate a disease by using a live version in a vaccine?? How is it that measles is actually an adverse event of the vaccine, and people think that the immunocompromised are safe form live vaccines that can and do, shed??

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE understand that the people mandating and forcing people to take medical procedures is not in the interest of public health. I have had many people comment on how this quote has haunted them. please read it, don’t fear it, rise up and help us stop it from continuing, before it really is too late.

So much love and respect.

Xo-e