Monday is the first day of school for the students in the Clark County (Las Vegas) and there will be a minor disaster awaiting thousands of student who think they will be attending school.
As of today, there are about 23,000 students who are not immunized or under immunized. These students will not be allowed to attend class and will be sent home. If a parent cannot be reached, they will be put in a room, like an auditorium or gym, for the school day and they will not be allowed to attend school until they are properly immunized.
And the Las Vegas Valley ped's clinics will not be able to immunize 23,000 or so in a day, so, some students maybe out of school for over a week.
The reason for this problem? It is now a state law that elementary and 7th graders be immunized and to prove it. And if they can't prove they were immunized, no school. So, this is a State of Nevada issue.
There has been plenty of advertising about this on the news and phone calls. But many poor families don't have phones and many parents don't watch the news, so this new state law will come as a surprise to them.
So, come Monday morning, there will be a bunch of caterwauling by many parents about their child sent home, but it is State of Nevada law and the parents and the State should be held responsible, not CCSD.
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