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Mary Holmes is a public school teacher in Sarasota County, where vaccination rates for kids are below 80 percent.
Her students have disabilities.
Many have weakened immune systems, and it's not just them.
We have a lot of teachers and staff members with cancer that people have no idea about.
She says parents should be able to choose whether to vaccinate their kids, but not if they send them to public school, where they put others at risk.
If a parent feels that strongly, I think they should go with their gut and then homeschool them.
I don't think you can have both.
By December, Florida will no longer require shots against four diseases, including hepatitis B and chickenpox.
For NPR News, I'm Keri Sheridan in Sarasota.
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Mary Holmes is a public school teacher in Sarasota County, where vaccination rates for kids are below 80 percent.
Her students have disabilities.
Many have weakened immune systems, and it's not just them.
We have a lot of teachers and staff members with cancer that people have no idea about.
She says parents should be able to choose whether to vaccinate their kids, but not if they send them to public school, where they put others at risk.
If a parent feels that strongly, I think they should go with their gut and then homeschool them.
I don't think you can have both.
By December, Florida will no longer require shots against four diseases, including hepatitis B and chickenpox.
For NPR News, I'm Keri Sheridan in Sarasota.