Ohio exemption form?

[ilovebabies]

I will be sending my 4 year old to preschool next fall and am already worried about how it will be taken that she's not vaxed. I don't have experience with this at all as she is my first unvaxed child. I've tried to find the exemption form online but am not having any luck. Every time I've tried to click on a link it's telling me that the page no longers exists, or some other error message. I'm obviously not on the right websites. Could someone direct me? Also, what legal reasons can I give for not vaccinating?

Also, if I were to ever choose to selective vax, would I use the same form, considering I'm not following the "proper" vax schedule?

Thanks,
Tracy

[manchestermafia]

Have you tried vaclib.org? You can get your state's info from there. There is also a great Refusal to Vaccinate form you can use for the doctor's office. Don't use theirs because it says something about being responsible for another child's death or something like that. Hope this web site helps.

[AllyRae]

I'm in Ohio and all I've had to do is write "exemption" across the vaccines my children can't have and all organizations that needed to accept it (schools, preschools, etc.) have accepted it just fine.

[ilovebabies]

Originally Posted by manchestermafia

Have you tried vaclib.org? You can get your state's info from there. There is also a great Refusal to Vaccinate form you can use for the doctor's office. Don't use theirs because it says something about being responsible for another child's death or something like that. Hope this web site helps.

I'll try that website. I'm not sure if it was one I was on or not. My Ped. doesn't require me to sign anything, but I will rememeber that incase I ever need it. Never know when she might decide to make me sign something. So far she's been cool about it but I know she doesn't agree with my decision.

[ilovebabies]

Originally Posted by AllyRae

I'm in Ohio and all I've had to do is write "exemption" across the vaccines my children can't have and all organizations that needed to accept it (schools, preschools, etc.) have accepted it just fine.

You mean on the form you have to fill out for school where it has you list the dates of the vaccinations? Do you put the word "exemption" on just a select few vaccines or across the whole section? That almost seems too easy to be true but would be wonderful and easy!

I just have in my head them giving me a really hard time about it and maybe not even wanting to enroll my daughter.

[ASusan]

If you're still having problems, pm me and I will send you my exemption form from work tomorrow. It is on my office computer.

[mamadelbosque]

I used this one to register ds:

http://rvpi.com/Forms/Ohio%20forms/o...0exemption.pdf
there was an initial 'umm..' but no questions once they'd actually read it

[Gitti]

http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/ohio.htm

Copy and paste the following:

Dear School director's name: or
To Whom It May Concern:


(We / I) {First and Last name(s)}, as the {(parent (s) /guardian(s)} of (name of child) are exercising (our/my) rights under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3701.501(A)(2) and §3313.671 to receive Religious Exemption from Vaccination, ALL injections, & testing.

Applicable law has been interpreted to mean that a religious belief is subject to protection even though no religious group espouses such beliefs or the fact that the religious group to which the individual professes to belong may not advocate or require such belief. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended Nov. 1, 1980; Part 1605.1-Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Religion.

Our legal rights are guaranteed by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Recent court decisions have upheld the rights of individuals seeking exemptions from immunizations based upon personal and religious reasons. On the U.S. Supreme Court level in Frazer V. Illinois Dept. of Security, 489 U.S. 829, it was found that a state may not deny an exemption simply because a person is not a member of a formal religious organization.

Please keep this document in my child's school file.

Sincerely,

mother and father signature

Get it notarized, this way it looks much more official, put it into an envelope and address it to the school director. Hand it to the secretary.

[AllyRae]

Originally Posted by ilovebabies

You mean on the form you have to fill out for school where it has you list the dates of the vaccinations? Do you put the word "exemption" on just a select few vaccines or across the whole section? That almost seems too easy to be true but would be wonderful and easy!

I just have in my head them giving me a really hard time about it and maybe not even wanting to enroll my daughter.

Yep, that's what I do (DS has a medical exemption for pertussis, influenza, varicella, MMR, and I think there's another one too but I'm blanking on it). Maybe it's easy for us because it's a medical exemption and not a philosophical one, and the school is a private montessori school--that's all we've ever needed to do.

[ASusan]

Our school is public/private (run by Head Start, meets state guidelines but we are private pay within it), and they accepted our philosophical exemption without blinking an eye. In addition to the modified form I turned in (similar to those posted above), our FP just crossed out the vaccine date information on the medical forms when he signed them.