FAIRMONT —
Students entering the seventh and 12th grades today should have gotten new vaccines before attending the first day of classes, but a two-week grace period will prevent administrators from having to send anyone home who did not comply with the new mandate, at least for now.
“We appreciate the fact that we won’t have to bar students at the door, but we also appreciate the parents who got in and got that done in a timely manner,” said Gary Price, superintendent of Marion County Schools.
Earlier this year, school administrators expressed concern that students were not getting the necessary vaccines, and at the time, the state Department of Education ruled that unlike other school vaccines, there would be no grace period once school was back in session.
Then earlier this week, the West Virginia Department of Education’s Office of Healthy Schools stated that a two-week grace period would be given to the students.
“I do not anticipate the state will extend the grace period,” Price said. “I believe they grudgingly issued the grace period, so I do not anticipate that it will be extended.”
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