Vermont’s Supreme Court has ruled that schools in the state can begin vaccinating children without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
The state’s high court ruled that school officials will get the final say on vaccination and can vaccinate kids against their parents’s wishes.
Families will no longer be able to sue their children’s schools over forced vaccination following the ruling.
Vermont’s Supreme Court made the decision while ruling on the case of a then-6-year-old who was given a Covid mRNA shot without the parents’ consent.
The court ruled that the family could not sue their child’s school district over the forced vaccination.
The child, labeled L.P. in the original complaint, was vaccinated at a November 2021 clinic hosted by the Windham Southeast School District and the Vermont Department of Health.
L.P. was a student at the district’s Academy School at the time.
The young child’s father told a school official days before that the child was not to be vaccinated, court documents say.
The school official acknowledged the father’s directive, according to the high court’s ruling.
Clinic workers claimed they gave L.P. one dose of the Pfizer vaccine after the child was mistakenly given a name tag