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Originally Posted by covertlycrunchy  I don't know if anybody else is having this problem too, I've been calling around to some of the other military bases and mine seems to be the only one mandating this vaccine for all the children at the base day care. The middle/high schools aren't mandating this, just the day care.
They are giving parents 2 weeks to get the shot or they will kick the kids out. Anybody know a way around this? I'm speaking not just for me but for a whole bunch of people who vaccinate regularly but don't want this one.
Also worth noting is that I've tried to get a religious exemption for my child but basically got stonewalled for over a year and they wouldn't let my second child into day care with her sister because she wasn't vaccinated and the exemption hadn't gone through yet. I had to go to part time to cover child care and getting day care on the economy is ridiculously expensive. As in I don't think we could afford food expensive.
Any suggestions?
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Wow, yes, they did that at my AF base in December. My DS is two and only hada couple spaced out shots at first and then no more, and my dd is 8 months and never had any vaxes. We were in the base daycare since ds was 3 months. Just lucky no one was really paying too much attention to the fact they weren't up on vaxes. But then they came down with the same "you have two weeks to get your kids h1n1 vax" we'll there was no way they were getting that, so I filed religious exemption, for all vaxes but that was on Dec 15 that i turned in the forms. Using the information I got from here, about exemtions. But On the cutoff date of 21 Dec I was told they would not be allowed back the next day. Even though I filed the exemption, they said they turned it into their flight chief and since they didn't have a reply my kids could not come back.. I'm still waiting, I contacted this flight chief lady and she says she turned my paper work into AF HQ and is waiting for a reply, and it can take along time. I'm about to go to my 1st sergreant and get my Commander involved. I just dont' care for the first shirt we have right now (very rule following women who would not be the type to think it was ok to not vax-I"m sure you know the type). But this is rediculious. I know some moms went and got the vax even though they didn't want to because they wanted to keep their kids in base daycare, and other Moms just left. I don't know of anyone else on base that does not vax though. And I dont understand why my exemption had to go to Headquaters, or what is taking so long.
As Far as your second daughter, (and maybe soon your first) you might qualify for a military child care subsity. I talked to them and They said I quailfy, but I just haven't finished the process yet, my kids are currently in a in home daycare. But they are supposed to offset the cost of
approved daycare centers so you'd pay about the same amount as on base and they pay the rest. It's called MCCYN (military child care in your neighborhood)
http://www.naccrra.org/MilitaryPrograms/assistance.php
Hope this helps! I feel you pain.
