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| Subject: Over 5,000 elementary school serf-kids suspended in Toronto for out-of-date immunization records Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:57 pm | |
| A total of 5,063 public elementary students were suspended in Toronto this school year after getting caught in what one doctor called, a “1970s-style, cumbersome process” over immunization records.
The number of students suspended amounted to 7 per cent of the 73,262 elementary students in 586 Toronto public elementary schools assessed by Toronto Public Health from July to mid-December 2017. That’s a jump from 5.6 per cent last year. “All of the students who were suspended either didn’t meet the immunization requirements as they were not up-to-date, their records were not filed on time, or they did not have a valid exemption,” said Dr. Vinita Dubey, associate medical officer at Toronto Public Health. All the students are back in school and up-to-date on their immunizations, said Dubey. Immunization requirements changed this year for children born in 2010 (currently Grade 2 students), said Dubey, who now require two doses of varicella vaccine (for chicken pox) to attend school under the Immunization of School Pupils Act. It is estimated that the varicella vaccine in children will offer 85 per cent protection after the first dose and 98 per cent after the second dose, said Ontario Ministry of Health spokesperson Laura Gallant in an email. “As a result of this change, the number of Grade 2 students who were outstanding was higher than previous years,” said Dubey. Last year, 46,726 elementary students were assessed in 584 schools; 2,622 (5.6 per cent) students were suspended.
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