School expels two students after their mother refused to have them vaccinated on religious grounds
Two teenage students were expelled from an upstate New York school for their refusal to be vaccinated on grounds of their family's religious beliefs. They had previously been suspended last November for the same, with their expulsion prompting the family to sue the school district in the state supreme court.
According to the Daily Mail, the two sisters, aged 13 and 15, were expelled "indefinitely" from a school under the jurisdiction of the Orchard Park School District (OPSD) this past week, with their mother Marina Williams alleging that her daughters' religious exemption hds been violated because it was against their "belief system for foreign substances such as vaccines to enter our bodies."
Court papers filed in the case revealed the family belongs to an evangelical congregation called the 'Temple of the Inner Flames Church.'