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IMMUNIZATION CERTIFICATES (Form 3231)
All
students entering or attending Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade in the
Fayette County School System are required to have a valid Georgia
Certificate of Immunization signed by a physician licensed in the State of
Georgia or a qualified representative of the health department. The
students must have been immunized against those diseases as so specified by
the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Parents/guardians are
responsible for seeing that their children are properly immunized in
accordance with Georgia law. For further immunization information, visit
the Georgia Department of Human Resources website at
www.health.state.ga.us/programs/immunization/parent.asp.
For
any student attending school for the first time, a parent/guardian must
submit a valid Georgia Certificate of Immunization. A student may attend
school for up to 30 calendar days after first admittance without a valid
certificate of immunization. A Georgia Certificate of Immunization is to be
issued in accord with the current Official Immunization Schedules. A
certificate may be issued for a student who has not received all required
immunizations with the conditions that the student is in the process of
completing the required immunizations and that immunizations are being
scheduled with the shortest intervals recommended in the current Official
Immunization Schedules. A certificate for a student who is in the process of
receiving all required vaccines must have a date of expiration that relates
to the date the next required immunization is due or the date on which a
medical exemption must be reviewed. A new certificate must then be obtained
and submitted to the school within 30 days after the expiration date.
Students whose parents/guardians fail to renew said certificate within the
time allotted shall not be permitted to continue attendance.
The
school shall accept immunization certificates signed by a physician licensed
in the State of Georgia or a qualified representative of the health
department stating that a child has a physical disability which in his/her
opinion makes vaccination of one or all required immunizations inadvisable.
A Georgia Certificate of Immunization indicating medical exemption must be
reviewed by the physician and reissued annually.
If
immunization requirements conflict with the religious beliefs of the
parents/guardians and student, the parent/guardian must supply the school
with an affidavit stating that fact. During an epidemic or threatened
epidemic of any disease preventable by an immunization required by the
Georgia Department of Human Resources, students who have not been immunized
may be excluded from school until (1) they are immunized against the
disease, unless they present a valid evidence of prior disease or (2) the
epidemic or threat no longer constitutes a significant public health danger.
EYE,
EAR AND DENTAL CERTIFICATE (Form 3300)
All
students entering or attending Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade in the
Fayette County School System are required to have a valid Georgia
Certificate of Eye, Ear, and Dental Examinations signed by a private
practitioner of dentistry, medicine, optometry, audiology or related
specialty licensed in the State of Georgia or a qualified representative of
the health department. To be valid, the eye, ear, and dental examinations
must have been received within the one year period prior to enrollment in
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