California School introduces GPS to track students.

[AdminAssistant]

Yeah, I have no issues with requiring MMR or chicken pox shots. Hell, I had to redo my MMR shots just to go to this university. For a while, they weren't checking, and mumps swept through a bunch of international students who weren't inoculated. CDC and WHO had to come in and it was pretty embarrassing. So now, they require shot records, and if there are any gaps, you have to redo the shot.

[Greenday]

I had to get MMR, polio, DPT, typhoid fever, hep a, hep b, TB, small pox and anthrax for my job. Did MMR, polio, DPT, typhoid and TB in one day. Three days later got my TB checked and got hep a and hep b. A week later, got the small pox and anthrax.

Small pox vaccine sucks. Too much caring for it.

[Eisa]

My uni didn't ever require vaccination records...

I would be fucked if they wanted to make me have the flu shot, I'm allergic. Or at least have REALLY bad reactions to it. [Injection site swells up and is quite red, and I faint.] I think it's probably because I'm allergic to chickens, and they use eggs...something got crossed there...or something.

Anyway. The GPS thing is fucked. I remember in sixth grade I could actually call myself in sick. [Granted, this was a fairly smallish school and I became known as the mature, responsible child ]. But yeah, that was rather easy...

If I had a kid and they had to wear the GPS thing, I too would be tempted to fuck with the system.

[Greenday]

If I had a kid and they had to wear the GPS thing, I too would be tempted to fuck with the system.

If you had a kid and you found out they were skipping school all the time so they want to put a GPS on them, you wouldn't be wondering where the hell your kid is going or worried about them skipping all the time?

[Eisa]

Considering they don't accept parental excuses...no. Or rather I would deal with it myself and the school can fuck off. They don't need to know where children are at 8 p.m.

[Greenday]

It seems like everywhere else, no schools accept parent's notes based on what I read on this board. Have you guys tried PTA meetings or anything?

[FArchivist]

I would be fucked if they wanted to make me have the flu shot, I'm allergic. Or at least have REALLY bad reactions to it. [Injection site swells up and is quite red, and I faint.] I think it's probably because I'm allergic to chickens, and they use eggs...something got crossed there...or something.

Probably. That's a valid medical reason, though; no school system in GA, no matter how anti-anti-vax, is going to cross the medical line. Even if it's only to avoid lawsuits.

It seems like everywhere else, no schools accept parent's notes based on what I read on this board. Have you guys tried PTA meetings or anything?

PTA has very little influence on the Board(s) of Education here in GA. In fact, when I was back in HS I remember it as being little more than a social club, no real power to it at all. If you want to change stuff like that, you have to attend a Board meeting, get a member of the Board to sponsor and put forward your request, and get a majority vote from the Board members on it.

My parents had to deal a lot with the Board when I was in high school. Nightmarish stuff.