I registered in an Illinois suburb today. I was on pins and needles wondering how registration would proceed with no vaccinations. Illinois had recently changed the statute governing religious exemptions. You have to enumerated every vaccination and why you have objections to it. The Illinois Dept. of Public Health also released a memo to the schools with a flowchart instructing them how to evaluate the sufficiency of requests for religious exemptions from vaccines.
I reached the health desk at registration with the physical form, dental form, and my letter about our religious objection. She read it and said, "okay." End of conversation. I was shaking, though, just from the whole anticipatory anxiety of how registration would proceed and worrying if I would forget any paperwork that would require me to go back to stand in an endless line. We were the first people to register and it took nearly 40 minutes to register just my twins.
I reached the health desk at registration with the physical form, dental form, and my letter about our religious objection. She read it and said, "okay." End of conversation. I was shaking, though, just from the whole anticipatory anxiety of how registration would proceed and worrying if I would forget any paperwork that would require me to go back to stand in an endless line. We were the first people to register and it took nearly 40 minutes to register just my twins.
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