Yes, if your child is a WCCUSD student and is age 12 or older, you must provide proof that your child has been fully vaccinated by January 3, 2022, in order for your child to attend school in-person, unless your child has an approved medical exemption.  There is no personal belief exemption.  The District’s Board passed this requirement to ensure all students on District sites and the entire school community are as safe as possible from the COVID-19 virus.

The District has been and will continue to sponsor FREE vaccinations for COVID-19 for District students at multiple school sites throughout the District. Visit this page for more information: https://www.wccusd.net/Page/15989

Please enter proof of your child’s COVID-19 vaccination through the District’s secure website portal at: wccusd.powerschool.com/public/.  If you do not have access to the internet, you may submit verification of your child’s in writing at their school site.  If you have a medical exemption excusing your child from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement, please submit verification of that exemption through the same secure website portal: wccusd.powerschool.com/public/.

Yes, if your child has IEP he or she must still get vaccinated, unless your child already has a District approved medical exemption for immunization or unless a medical exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement is submitted to the District.  However, the District will ensure that any student with an IEP will continue to have access to the special education and related services required by the student’s individualized education program regardless of vaccination status.

The legal authority of the state and local education agencies are different.  There is no statute or California Supreme Court case that expressly prevents the District from establishing and implementing an FDA approved COVID-19 vaccine for eligible students that does not include a personal belief exemption.

If your 12 and older district student is fully vaccinated by the January 3, 2022 enforcement date, your child will continue with in-person instruction at school as usual.  If your child is not fully vaccinated by the January 3, 2022 date, you child will automatically be offered enrollment in the Vista Virtual Academy, except for students with IEPs.  Students with IEPs who will not be fully vaccinated by January 3, 2022, should contact their IEP case manager before that date.  The IEP team will meet to determine what, if any, change in placement might be appropriate to ensure compliance with the student’s IEP given the student’s vaccination status.

Employees and students who are 12 years of age and older and part of in-person extracurricular programs must receive their first vaccination dose within 30 days from the adoption of the resolution, and their second dose no later than 60 calendar days after adoption of the resolution. (October 30th and Nov 30th.) 

All students ages 12 and up, and other students as they become eligible for the vaccine, must receive their first shot within 45 days after adoption of the resolution, and the second dose no later than 75 days after adoption of the resolution. Students who will turn 12, or become eligible for the vaccine during the school year, will have a month after their birthday to get vaccinated. (Nov. 15 and Dec. 15)

From the Mayo Clinic: The FDA reviewed a study of more than 2,200 U.S. children ages 12 through 15. Of this group, about half were given the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The other children were given an inactive (placebo) shot.

A week after the second dose was given, research showed no cases of COVID-19 in the 1,005 children given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Among 978 children given the placebo, there were 16 cases of COVID-19. None of the children had previously been diagnosed with COVID-19. The results suggest that the vaccine is 100% effective at preventing COVID-19 in this age group.

From the CDC: COVID-19 vaccines were developed using science that has been around for decades.

• COVID-19 vaccines are safe—much safer than getting COVID-19.
• COVID 19-vaccines are effective at preventing severe illness from COVID-19 and limiting the spread of the virus that causes it.

Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history. CDC recommends you get a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as you can.

In WCCUSD, eligible students, aged 12 and above have until November 15 to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The second shot should be taken no later than December 15. WCCUSD students are required to be fully vaccinated by January 3. 

Please note that any students ages 12 and up who participate in extracurricular activities on campus, including athletics, will need to have their first dose by October 30 and their second dose by November 30.

Any student who participates in athletics, band or choir.