This is so interesting to read, it's so different. I'm a Brit and it's much vaguer here.
The worst I've heard about here is a reminder letter from the school nurse if you've not gone for the standard jab series. The school nurse teams visits schools for all the scheduled jabs and parents are asked to complete online consent forms in advance which a series of questions require answers including allergies and so on. I have come across parents for whom the online consent form just won't work, those people have to send a letter to the school nurse office, and there isn't a way to force them to answer any intrusive questions in that letter about their children's health. Not that the school nurses necessarily respect parents' wishes, I have come across children who had to make a big fuss not to be marched into the office for jabs which is something that a lot of children would find difficult, which I have come across as a reason people home educate so as not to put a child in that position.
Most activities (religous and community groups for inst) will ask for your doctor's name and address on the consent form but as long as you write something there no-one is going to know whether you ever go to that doctor -- I think it's just so they know where to send accident and emergency notes if the child suffers an accident requiring treatment.
Difficulties arise here in case of parental disagreement in a legal context -- if parents are separating and one parent wishes to, the court will order standard treatment which means the child must have the jabs that are recommended unless someone has the resources to successfully fight a case in court (ballpark £50 000?), so the parental relationship and like mindedness on health matters is a key element in what children get.
Well worth thinking through how these systems work in different places. Interesting what people have said here about the class dimension too, that there may be different ways around depending on which systems people are part of.
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Re: Emily Oster says 'Let's forgive and forget'
Date: 2022-11-05 06:44 am (UTC)The worst I've heard about here is a reminder letter from the school nurse if you've not gone for the standard jab series. The school nurse teams visits schools for all the scheduled jabs and parents are asked to complete online consent forms in advance which a series of questions require answers including allergies and so on. I have come across parents for whom the online consent form just won't work, those people have to send a letter to the school nurse office, and there isn't a way to force them to answer any intrusive questions in that letter about their children's health. Not that the school nurses necessarily respect parents' wishes, I have come across children who had to make a big fuss not to be marched into the office for jabs which is something that a lot of children would find difficult, which I have come across as a reason people home educate so as not to put a child in that position.
Most activities (religous and community groups for inst) will ask for your doctor's name and address on the consent form but as long as you write something there no-one is going to know whether you ever go to that doctor -- I think it's just so they know where to send accident and emergency notes if the child suffers an accident requiring treatment.
Difficulties arise here in case of parental disagreement in a legal context -- if parents are separating and one parent wishes to, the court will order standard treatment which means the child must have the jabs that are recommended unless someone has the resources to successfully fight a case in court (ballpark £50 000?), so the parental relationship and like mindedness on health matters is a key element in what children get.
Well worth thinking through how these systems work in different places. Interesting what people have said here about the class dimension too, that there may be different ways around depending on which systems people are part of.