Does Fr. Scott say in the original article that parents must definitely refuse to allow vaccination or that they must protest and make their objections known, iow, accept vaccination under protest?
When the law was changed in New York State for the 2019-2020 school year, enough Protestant parents in the school where I taught for nearly 30 years withdrew their children so as to effectively close the school. A number of similar “Christian” schools in the New York City area closed their doors rather than cooperate with this unjust requirement. Sad to say, I know of no Catholic schools, either novus ordo or traditional, who did not acquiesce.
One family went to unusual lengths to keep their seven children in the school. The paternal grandfather lived in Israel where vaccines are not required. The family went for a visit and the three youngest children conveniently came down with the measles.
In New York itself, measles was making the rounds in the Orthodox and Hasidic communities. Gov. Cuomo and Mayor DiBlasio’s attempts to legally reign in non-compliant religious schools met mostly with failure. The Jews and Protestants at least put up a protest.