I worked in an elementary school office in So Ca for 15 years - my main job was to register the children, do attendance, phone/counter and play “school nurse” ( nope, not a nurse, no nurse schooling, just being a mom training). When I first started in 2003, both medical and religious exemptions were accepted without a blink of the eye. Slowly, the system began to make parents jump through hoops to prove these exemptions, eventually followed by outright refusal of them! They expected me to call the parent and advise their child would not be allowed to attend school without a vaccine schedule given by a doctor was presented. NOPE - wasn’t doing it. I knew any half brained attorney would take this on, or so I thought. By 2018 between this, the Obama school nutrition program and overall politics that didn’t belong, I retired in 2018. My BF who loves teaching 2 grade for over 20 years left this past summer due to the whole are you a boy? a girl? a cat? (For real) It was to be heavily pushed this school year so she pulled the plug!