A draconian California law wiped out personal and religious exemptions for vaccines, forcing parents to have their children vaccinated if they want to enroll them in public school. This is a violation of just about every human standard that I can think of. ? TN Editor

Scores of Sacramento area students were sent home from school this week after they showed up for kindergarten and seventh grade without proof of vaccination.

In the Folsom Cordova Unified School District, 145 students out of about 3,200 starting kindergarten and seventh grade were sent home Tuesday on the first day of school for lack of immunization records, according to spokesman Daniel Thigpen.

A new state law that took effect July 1 eliminated personal- and religious-belief exemptions for families that opted to avoid vaccinations for their children. Under the new law, students entering the two checkpoint years of kindergarten and seventh grade are now required to show proof of vaccination. The requirement also applies to students who transfer into a district.

Thigpen said the Folsom Cordova district was hoping that many of the students sent home on Tuesday – 72 children from kindergarten and 73 from seventh grade – had received shots at vaccination clinics and returned to class this week. As of Friday, 98 students remained out of class – 37 in kindergarten and 61 in seventh grade.