HHS Investigating School for Allegedly Vaccinating Kid Without Parents’ Consent
“Today, we are putting pediatric medical professionals on notice: you cannot sideline parents.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun investigating a Midwestern school for allegedly vaccinating a child without the parents’ permission.
HHS did not name the school.
“Today, we are putting pediatric medical professionals on notice: you cannot sideline parents,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “When providers ignore parental consent, violate exemptions to vaccine mandates, or keep parents in the dark about their children’s care, we will act decisively. We will use every tool at our disposal to protect families and restore accountability.”
.@HHSGov has launched an investigation into a troubling incident where a midwestern school administered a federally funded vaccine to a child despite a legally recognized state exemption.
If a provider ignores consent, violates an exemption, or keeps parents in the dark, HHS… pic.twitter.com/tKT4B40560
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) December 4, 2025
The press release did not provide any additional information.
All I could think was, “WHAT IN THE WORLD?!”
I would go OFF on anyone who provides my child with medical care without my permission. It’s not just the lack of the parents’ consent. Allergies, anyone? Medical complications?!
More from the press release:
The investigation by HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) into the reported violation of the exemption from vaccination will examine whether the school failed to comply with the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) requirement that conditions federal provision of vaccines for immunization on compliance with state religious and other exemptions from compulsory vaccination. OCR will also examine how the state agency and school district process religious exemption requests to ensure compliance with state law when implementing the VFC program. Program providers receive vaccines purchased for the VFC by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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OCR’s letter to health care providers spells out parents’ right to access their children’s protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. Under the Privacy Rule, a parent is the personal representative of his or her minor child where the parent has the legal authority to make health care decisions for the child. The letter reinforces that parents who are their children’s personal representatives can exercise their children’s rights with respect to protected health information, including the right of access. OCR is also initiating compliance reviews of a number of large health care providers to ensure that parents receive timely access to their children’s health information.
Mary Margaret Olohan at The Daily Wire mentioned the leftists who have been promoting something called “Adolescent Medicine,” which pushes medical professionals to attend to children without telling the parents.
Olohan spoke with HHS Office of Civil Rights Director Paula Stannard:
HHS Office of Civil Rights Director Paula Stannard told The Daily Wire in a phone interview that the department was first made aware of “Adolescent Medicine” and its dangers through a report issued by “Do No Harm,” a group that fights back against gender ideology, and has raised many concerns about the medical community transitioning children without parental consent. Stannard called this activist push for “Adolescent Medicine” very “concerning,” particularly from her perspective and her role in enforcing HIPAA.
“Part of what the HIPAA rules outline are the rights that individuals and their personal representatives have with respect to their health information,” she noted. “And one of those rights is the right to access. Starting in the first Trump administration, we had begun an initiative to enforce the individual’s right to access of their medical records. And so when I saw this, I immediately decided and recommended to the secretary that we further emphasize this particular aspect of the privacy rule in our enforcement efforts under this initiative.”
HHS reminded health providers that HIPAA’s “Privacy Rule generally gives the parent the right to access the child’s medical records as the child’s personal representative, unless one of the limited exceptions applies.”
Yes, there states that allow minors to consent to specific medical care. That also ticks me off so much and it should make anyone mad. No one under 18 should be allowed to consent to anything.
And then not even allow the parents access to their child’s medical records?
This story has me fuming.
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When I was in grade school there were vaccinations that the whole class got. I doubt parents were involved. Probably for measles or some such thing, which ran wild in those days.
The Salk vaccine came in when I was in grammar school. Some other shots were offered over the years as well. EVERY ONE OF THEM needed a permission slip from parents. Nothing was forced.
Our measles vaccine back then? Catching the measles.
When my son got his real drivers license and was able to drive himself places I once sent him to the dentist for a routine checkup and teeth cleaning. When he got there the receptionist had to call me and get my permission, over the phone, to clean and examine his teeth. Not fix anything, not give him any drugs, just look at his teeth and clean them. Always amazes me how things like this happen and when underage girls get abortions and stuff. Someone is not following the law.
The only shot I recall getting administered in school was the smallpox shot. All others were done by the family physician – for kindergarten, 5th grade, and high school (9th grade)… tetanus booster, polio, or DPT – not the shots for everything under the sun like they do now.
Are you getting? I remember when I was a kid they had to get parental permission to give you aspirin for a headache. I can’t imagine them injecting something into a student without getting permission from their parents. If someone did that to my child, the district would have one less health professional.
Assault and battery. Considering the present recommendations, this will be costly and whoever gave the shot …is…well…. shot.
Nah. Instead simply allow the Parents of each Student impacted to inject the same dosage of an unknown substance into the folks who responsible for creating, running, administering the program from school nurse to VP, Principals, Asst Superintendent, Superintendent and definitely members of the school board. Let them line up and receive their dose of comeuppance or Clorox or draino but they only find out afterwards.
The one thing that comes to my mind is:
Why should schools be vaccinating anyone at all?
To protect the whole class.
That’s the pretext. Who knows what their true motivation is?
Sometimes a stated reason IS the reason.
Great, lets use that same logic to hand out revolvers and ammo and a half a dozen range training days to protect the whole class from kooks who wanna murder them.
Why not?
One of my HS had vaccination requirements for us but it was left up to the parents to see that they were met (or the corresponding disease experienced).
I Honestly by myself surprised that more parents don’t take it into their own hands when such things happen. Consequences be damned, you mess with kids you get what you deserve
My situation is a little different
I gave my kid $25 a week for school lunches ( a reasonable amount )
She came to me one tuesday morning stating she needed lunch money, then told me the school had a “fund raising ” drive.
I went to the principals office and demanded a return of the money since the child was not of legal age to consent to donate money for the schools pet project. It wasnt a pleasant meeting.
About the only fundraising we ever really had at my school was when they would pass out those other postcards but the coin slots on them. Three4 two dimes and one nickel. Filled in the wheels on a choo-choo train. It was for the March of Dimes. Were they caused at the time, and still is as they moved on from polio to childhood birth defect. At any rate, it was not mandatory and there was none of this 100% class participation no nonsense. Back in those days, they didn’t dare.
Three quarters, two dimes… blasted speed to Tax. I mean speech to text
Pediatricians.
American Academy of Pediatrics
https://www.aap.org/en/search/?k=vaccination+policy
“The AAP advocates for the elimination of nonmedical exemptions from immunizations as contrary to optimal individual and public health.”
This gender transition stuff along with giving children vaccines without the parents consent more and more makes me believe that my thoughts about a lot of doctors are true. Inside a lot of doctors are a Joseph Mengele begging to get out.