Radical Shift: Do Not Disclose Student Vaccine Records To Any Louisiana School
Let's shake things up a bit, shall we?
Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. The lie that Louisiana schools require students to be vaccinated to attend school has been stated so often that it is a part of our culture—but we’re ready for a radical cultural shift.
No, students do not have to be vaccinated to attend ANY Louisiana school, including colleges and universities.
The law, R.S. 17:170, states that proof of immunity or vaccination be provided, OR a note from a physician that vaccination is contraindicated for the student’s health, OR the parent or student can provide a “written dissent.” To dissent simply means you do not agree with the request for the student’s vaccine information, for whatever reason. R.S. 17:170 makes no mention of religious or philosophical reasons because no reason is needed to dissent. Schools simply need a document in the student’s file to satisfy the law: either proof of immunity, an immunization record, a note from a physician, or a written dissent from the student or parent/guardian (if student is a minor).
These are not exemptions from the law—this is the law. And it has ALWAYS been that way.
The state of Louisiana cannot lawfully compel anyone to be vaccinated. Yet many within the education and healthcare systems continue to manipulate, pressure, or mislead parents into vaccinating their children, often by misrepresenting or selectively citing state law.
This coercion, whether intentional or due to ignorance, must stop.
Parents and students: Do not submit vaccine records to any Louisiana school.
Instead, always assert your rights by submitting a written dissent.
NO, you do not have to use the form provided by the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) or the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH). The law does not specify any particular form has to be used. The form provided by LDOE and LDH includes a statement about being removed from campus in the event of an outbreak of a “vaccine-preventable disease.” While R.S. 17:170(F) does include a provision for the possible exclusion of unvaccinated students (not teachers) from campus in the event of an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, we do not recommend that any parent or student agree to this provision in writing.
Why not sign the form provided by LDOE or LDH?
In 2021, with approval from the Louisiana Department of Health, colleges and universities mandated COVID-19 vaccination, even though COVID-19 is not a vaccine-preventable disease. Until a law passed in 2024 prohibiting schools from requiring covid vaccination, there were still 86 NOLA city schools requiring covid vaccination for students as young as 5. Any of these schools could have excluded students during an outbreak of COVID-19 despite it not being a “vaccine-preventable disease.”
What other illnesses does the state require vaccination records for, despite the fact that they are not truly vaccine-preventable?
All of them.
The state requests vaccination history for the following illnesses:
MMR: Measles, Mumps, Rubella
Measles: According to Physicians for Informed Consent, “nearly 50% of schoolchildren and most adults vaccinated with the MMR vaccine can still be infected with measles virus and spread it to others, even with mild or no symptoms of their own.” Note that CDC data indicates a third dose of MMR to be ineffective.
Rubella: According to Physicians for Informed Consent, by age 15, “1 out of 3 vaccinated children are susceptible to infection and spread of rubella.”
Mumps: According to Physicians for Informed Consent, “immunity from the vaccine wanes so that one quarter of vaccinated children lose protection within 7.9 years, half within 19 years, and three quarters within 38 years.”
DTaP: Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis
According to Physicians for Informed Consent, DTaP “does not prevent asymptomatic infection or the spread of diphtheria or pertussis, and it has no effect on the transmission of tetanus because tetanus is not contagious.” The CDC also admitted in a recently archived webpage that the tetanus toxoid used in the vaccine has never been tested for efficacy, rather inferred.
“Efficacy of the toxoid has never been studied in a vaccine trial. It can be inferred from protective antitoxin levels that a complete tetanus toxoid series has a clinical efficacy of virtually 100%. . .”
Hep A: Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is transmitted via the fecal-oral route and is not typically communicable in a standard school setting with proper hygiene and sanitation. According to the CDC, “the exact duration of protection after vaccination is unknown.”
Hep B: Hepatitis B
According to Physicians for Informed Consent, “about 50% of vaccinated children lose their immunity by age 5.” Because Hepatitis B is a bloodborne illness, it is not transmitted through casual contact and therefore poses no risk of spreading in a typical school setting.
IPV: Polio
According to the CDC, polio “vaccination does prevent disease. It does not prevent asymptomatic infection and further spreading of polioviruses.”
Varicella: Chickenpox
According to the VARIVAX package insert, recently varicella vaccinated individuals can transmit the virus to others. If anyone should be excluded during a chickenpox outbreak, it’s those recently vaccinated with varicella vaccine.
“Post-marketing experience suggests that transmission of varicella vaccine virus (Oka/Merck) resulting in varicella infection including disseminated disease may occur between vaccine recipients (who develop or do not develop a varicella-like rash) and contacts susceptible to varicella including healthy as well as high-risk individuals.
Due to the concern for transmission of vaccine virus, vaccine recipients should attempt to avoid whenever possible close association with susceptible high-risk individuals for up to six weeks following vaccination with VARIVAX.”
MenACWY: Meningococcal
According to the CDC, “MenACWY, MenB, and MenABCWY vaccines showed that they produce an immune response. This immune response suggests the vaccines provide protection, but data are limited on how well they work.” Additionally, “available data suggest that protection from MenACWY vaccines decreases in many teens within 5 years.”
Most people assume vaccines prevent transmission and infection of communicable diseases, yet some of the illnesses we vaccinate for are not communicable, especially in a school setting. Hep B (sexually transmitted, IV drug use), Hep A (food borne illness, fecal-oral route of transmission), polio (fecal-oral route of transmission), and tetanus (non-communicable) are prime examples. Other vaccines do not prevent transmission or infection, while making the recipient more susceptible to future infections, like pertussis-containing vaccines. And then other vaccines may provide protection against symptoms, though for how long is not well known, while the recipient can shed the vaccine strain of the virus, as with chickenpox and measles vaccines.
If vaccines reduce symptoms without preventing infection or transmission, then removing unvaccinated students does nothing to eliminate risk. In fact, failing to test vaccinated individuals—who may carry and spread a virus while remaining asymptomatic—poses a far greater public health threat. At least, for those afraid of viruses.
This is why it’s important NOT to sign a form saying the student will be excused in an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease.
Read more about how vaccination does not create herd immunity at HealthFreedomLA.org.
Additionally, these drugs have serious gaps in product safety—a risk the state has no right asking you to shoulder, especially without full transparency, informed consent, and manufacturers’ liability for those harmed.
These gaps in vaccine product safety include:
No pre-licensure, inert placebo controlled clinical trials
No long term safety reviews
No studies on cumulative toxicity
No adequate adverse event reporting
No product liability, meaning the consumer cannot sue for vaccine-associated injury or death
In September 2024, vaccine injury attorney Aaron Siri delivered a detailed presentation on the deficiencies in vaccine safety oversight to the Louisiana House Committee on Homeland Security. Below is a short excerpt from that presentation.
“Not a single childhood vaccine, I could tell you, has gone through a placebo controlled clinical trial, sufficient duration, and power to assess that it was safe before being injected into millions of children in America. I can say that categorically, not because it’s my opinion, but because anybody who goes to the FDA website could see that for themselves by looking at the package inserts and the underlying clinical trial documents that are available on the FDA website.”
Watch Siri’s testimony in its entirety HERE.
Can Louisiana schools refuse a “written dissent”?
No, R.S. 17:170 applies to ALL Louisiana schools, including licensed daycares and universities, both public and private. No school can ask you to “request” an exemption—all schools are obligated under the law to accept your “written dissent.” Some schools feel they are excluded from this law, but they risk emergency federal funding and state accreditation if they fail to follow the law. Also, misrepresenting state law in school handbooks vitiates any contract with parents or students. Read more at HealthFreedomLA.org.
The option to refuse to provide vaccine records to schools has been in place since R.S. 17:170 went into effect in 1991. In 2024, three important bills were signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry:
Act 675, authored by Representative Kathy Edmonston, requires ANY communication about the vaccine requirements for school attendance to include a citation of the law detailing the option to submit a “written dissent.” R.S. 17:170(E(2)
Act 460, authored by Representative Beryl Amedee, is the first law of its kind in the nation, prohibiting schools from discriminating against students based on their vaccination status. R.S. 17:170(E)(3)
Act 674, authored by Representative Kathy Edmonston, prohibits any school from requesting covid vaccination for school attendance. R.S. 17:170(A)(4)
By not providing the entirety of the law, including the option to dissent, schools and healthcare professionals violate informed consent and medical ethics.
No one should feel pressure to undergo a medical procedure, especially one that has been so terribly misrepresented to parents.
Finally, it is our position that this lie—that Louisiana schools require students to be vaccinated—paved the way for the medical fascism that occurred during covid. In an April 2020 interview with FOX News’ Laura Ingraham, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy cited the Louisiana law to justify the concept of immunity passports. Note in the post below, Cassidy states vaccine information is HIPPA protected. That statement is also a lie. There are schools in Louisiana that allow all teachers to see the student’s vaccination information—and there is no legal consequence for sharing it.
This interview was the moment vaccine passports were thrust into public consciousness, thanks to Senator Cassidy, who used his platform to normalize the concept of medical segregation.
The radical remedy for the medical fascism we experienced during covid is a prohibition of medical mandates—all of them—including the state’s vaccine law which has been used for decades to manipulate parents into vaccinating their children.
For now, exercise your right to dissent. Do not provide ANY vaccination records to ANY Louisiana school, regardless the student’s vaccination status.
HFL has updated our sample dissent form, which we formerly referred to as an exemption, on our website. Find it at HealthFreedomLA.org.
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