Newton Public Schools in Newton, Massachusetts will now require all students to be vaccinated before returning to school in the fall of 2025 unless they have a valid medical or religious exemption to vaccination. Superintendent Anna Nolin announced the policy change after a review prompted by a recent increase in chickenpox cases across the district. District officials say more than 182 students have attended school without the required vaccinations since 2020, including 42 students who were not fully vaccinated against measles.1
Unvaccinated Students Will Be Excluded Without Exemption
In a memo dated June 16, 2025, Superintendent Anna Nolin said a meeting with Newton Health and Human Services and the City of Newton’s Nursing Division revealed the extent of the issue. Many of the unvaccinated students were allowed to enroll during the COVID-19 pandemic under emergency policies that temporarily waived state vaccination requirements.2
Nolin confirmed that those waivers have now been revoked. In collaboration with local health officials, the district has reinstated full vaccination requirements. She noted that the students are missing different mandated vaccines for school attendance. Personalized outreach will be conducted to notify families about the steps needed to comply with Massachusetts vaccination requirements to attend school.3
The memo also stated that any unvaccinated student who is exposed to measles will be required to stay home from school for 21 days. The district emphasized that it is not required to provide compensatory education during that quarantine period. It adds that when school resumes this fall, the school district will not allow any student to return unless they are fully vaccinated according to Massachusetts State requirements or have a state-approved approved exemption.4
Students may be exempt from vaccination requirements if a doctor provides a written statement saying vaccination is not in the child’s best interest. In order to obtain a religious exemption to vaccine requirements, a letter from the parent/guardian or the individual seeking exemption can be used and the request should state in writing that a vaccine conflicts with the individual’s sincerely held religious belief.5 6 7
Massachusetts Lawmakers Consider Ending Religious Exemption for School Vaccines
Not all parents are on board with the new vaccination mandate. One Newton mother voiced strong opposition, saying, “If I had my choice, I would not vaccinate them at all. I think the vaccines are poison.”8
Massachusetts currently allows families to request exemptions from school vaccination requirements for medical or religious reasons; however, lawmakers are now considering a bill that would eliminate the religious exemption. The proposed legislation, filed by State Representative Andres Vargas , seeks to remove all non-medical exemptions for routine school-entry vaccinations.9 10
Katie Blair of Massachusetts Families for Vaccines said:
Several states have gotten rid of them in recent years, including California, Connecticut, Maine and New York, all around here. So we’re hoping to be the next one.11
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Click here to view References:1 Bienick D. No vaccines, no school: Newton enforces student vaccination requirements. WCVB June 26, 2025.
2 Newton Public School. Office of Superintendent of Schools. June 16. 2025.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Morillo E. Mass. public school district says students not up-to-date on vaccines can’t return to class in fall. Boston 25 News June 26, 2025.
6 National Vaccine Information Center. Massachusetts State Vaccine Requirements.
7 Morillo E. Mass. public school district says students not up-to-date on vaccines can’t return to class in fall. Boston 25 News June 26, 2025.
8 Bienick D. No vaccines, no school: Newton enforces student vaccination requirements. WCYB June 26, 2025.
9 Morillo E. Mass. public school district says students not up-to-date on vaccines can’t return to class in fall. Boston 25 News June 26, 2025.
10 Goulston R. Lawmakers take another stab at getting rid of vaccine religious exemptions. WGBH Mar. 11, 2025.
11 Bienick D. No vaccines, no school: Newton enforces student vaccination requirements. WCVB June 26, 2025.
17 Responses
Why are we still going the wrong direction with this nonsense? I thought RFK was going to finally DO something. At the very LEAST, any vaccine should be voluntary and not required for school, work, or the military. This country is cooked…
the power of big pharma is deep….it will take years to reverse and offset it…
Kimbot. Join the NVIC, specifically your state coalition. NVIC has one for every single state. Sign up today.
https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/
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The vaccine cult is alive and thriving in all western countries. It is such a pervasive cult that the vast majority of people will never question it, thus ensuring those who educate themselves will always be under threat. If the vaccines worked, there would be no need to push them. They do not work, so eliminating a control group is the only solution they see.
So now starts another wave of migration away from Massachusetts—at least from Newton.
I can’t imagine submitting to this insanity knowing the damage these injections have done.
We now worship Pfizer. The brainwashing is incredibly complete.
The higher the Education level. The further the disconnect, from Nature. (With The System now their god & savior.) Newton & many in MA, appear to be under some kind or hypnotic spell mind virus!
The end game is total control over the entire population. Both controlled parties been picking away at this for decades. They all controlled by the same evil puppet masters. They divide and conquer. Unite before it’s too late.
the march toward Transhumanism Agenda continues unabated…
….these baby killers….the Autism advocates are losing power…and they know it. Thus the need for increased use of force. They are desperate. Pull your kids from public school….and crush the baby killers financially. Never submit again. Crush the Globalists…
I live in California where they took away all personal, religious and medical exemptions in 2012. “Coincidentally” the Autism Rate in California is 1 in 12.5 children now. I know many many families with non verbal autistic children, up into the adult level now.
This comment is more what happened AFTER they took away all of the exemptions. My friend is a teacher in a school district largely attended by the children of immigrant farmworkers. Prior to 2012 the children were polite, well behaved, eager to learn and on track developmentally according to her (the parents, largely undocumented, did not vaccinate or even bring their children to a Doctor)
Then suddenly they had to give their children all of the vaccines, because they need them to be in school so they could work. A lot of them caught up the kids on all 72 doses required at the time.
My friend, who was teaching 4th Grade, suddenly had a classroom full of undiagnosed autistic children, Massive ADHD, Violent Behaviors (such as breaking all of the school supplies and even throwing chairs at her) and 9-10 year olds who could NOT control their bowels. She said at least 4-5 times a week various 4th Graders will Defecate in their Pants, and their parents are working out in the fields and unreachable and did not send extra clothes, so it is a huge problem. She has a few more years until retirement but at this point the children are basically not learning-she said out of 30 children 12-23 are not teachable and 8-14 are violent, disruptive and feral in every class. The few well behaved children are completely ignored and learn nothing because teaching has become “crowd control”. The 3 “Special Ed” classrooms are SO FULL with severely disabled children (up to 90 children) that the counsellors look the other way and ignore the behaviours because there is nothing they can do anyway!
Stay tuned for a massive tsunami of brain damage in the students in Newton, MA whose parents can’t afford Private Schools or Home Schooling.
Wow Toni. Thank you for posting that on the Vaccine Reaction blogs site. I’m hopeful that with more people giving real world disclosures and participating more, we can better educate the public on these reckless policies. I just wrote out a long post on how so much of this ferver to force vaccination stems from propaganda and endless racketeering. So please give my post a read in this below thread when you get a minute. Moderator should approve that post soon.
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2025/07/acip-majority-ignores-risks-and-recommends-infants-get-mercks-rsv-monoclonal-antibody/
What you are saying is true. Our children were never vaccinated. They constantly out performed their peers in just about every way, and are much more emotionally grounded. Health issues are basically absent from our lives. All it took was not vaccinating, eating organic staple foods, and staying away from excessive sugar and processed foods. We never did much anything special other than say no to chemicals in foods and pharma.
My brother lives in CA and I read the vaccine exemption rules thoroughly. It was such a setup and a joke, hippocritical. They formed an age cut off deal. Where if your children were already of a certain age and in the schools, they could carry on through the rest of their educational career under old rules which allowed exemptions. But if they were younger than a certain age cut off line, they were required to abide new much more strict vaccination standards.
One has to wonder, given a tyrannical government that imposes in such a manner, how many people used inside connections to form fictitious vaccine compliance paperwork or found ways around the requirements. Because all it takes is one friendly person to accept your paperwork or provide the paperwork needed, and you simply bypass the imposed tyranny of mandatory vaccines. Bribe someone. The entire vaccination industry is built upon lies and deception anyways.
Many people, being honest, did not abide and left the state of CA. My brother lost the majority of about a dozen lifetime friends, as they all fled the state and moved elsewhere. The tyranny and mis management was not limited to just vaccines and there were many reasons to leave. One primary reason for people with children was of course mandatory vaccines. Millions of people fled as a result. And now just like your story indicates, people are crapping their britches in public places and lost a hundred intelligence points overnight just about everywhere. Chronic illness abounds and hospitals are full to capacity all the time. Sounds about right. From a medical profit perspective; mission accomplished.
In Colorado they tried to eliminate exceptions and floated that many times. Thankfully the http://www.NVIC.org state coalition issued a call to action, so many of us participated and wrote letters or appeared in person, gave generous donations, and this did not happen. But the state tyrants got away with more restrictions. So now we have to sign up with this complex database and get an ‘officially issued vaccination exemption’, and take a stupid online class chalked full of pro pharmasuetical industry propaganda. Then we have to opt out of the data sharing database every year immediately after, only to do it again the next year, over and over again. It’s a true exercise in stupidity, recurring, on a yearly basis. That’s Colorado pro vaccine politicians for you. As stupid as they come.
They tried to make this an in person class and I wrote to all of the politicians and said; Double dare you to do that because when I’m dragged there in person I’ll flyer the entire area with educational literature informing people of the dangers of vaccines, leave activist stickers everywhere, and I’ll give stacks of informational disclosure to every other parent who’s there in person with me, including the alleged teachers of the class. Then of course, the situation turned to an online class instead. And that’s how it’s done.
The people whom push mandatory vaccines don’t care about health and safety. They are scientifically and morally ignorant. They actually think that one can inject health into the body with a needle. What they are doing is not science. They are not experts. They are tyrants with pens, attempting to bark dictatorial orders at everyone. And they are bribed or rewarded financially for doing so. That’s we we all need to be willing to stand up for ourselves and the children, and tell them to their face we don’t care what they say and we will not comply.
If they attempt to draw you into a scientific argument or anything of that nature, one does not have to be well educated on any science to effectively resist. Tell them that because they are violating the voluntary principal, and attempting to use the force of government to make you do something, you have a moral obligation to resist because that is tyranny, the abuse of power, using the force of the government. Then you can lie to them to placate their tyranny and say you’ll think about the vaccines, but only if you have a choice. Because it’s your choice to make what you do with your body not theirs. If they get into the public health argument tell them health is an individual concern and the counter argument to public health, is vaccines cause everyone to be more sick all the time anyways and they don’t even understand the science. Then parrot them like a mime; lead them to their own inevitable talking point; safe and effective. Make fun of their ignorance. Their propagandized state. ‘yes yes, we’ve all heard that before, you’re good at repeating the propaganda and pro vaccine slogans, great job.’
That or detail the actual facts and science behind a failed hypotheses that vaccines are safe and effective, which they are not, which me and many others have posted about on this website over many years. Back read the articles and comments here for years past and there is a rich educational opportunity right here, for free, that anyone can access. And read the entirety of the NVIC website content and all of Barbara’s well informed educational articles she’s written as well.
As far as the vaccine injured kids are concerned, document the issue. Every piece of information helps. Then detoxify the children. Read up on that. And then get involved with rolling back the tyranny by giving yearly to NVIC and signing up an account to participate in letter writing campaigns and being alerted in real time whenever the idiots in the halls of your state government attempt to push anti choice pro vaccine legislation. That’s like NVIC’s entire focus, real time alerts to stop it from happening. Warn the government bozos in no uncertain terms that if they paint you as a criminal or deny children educational opportunity over vaccines, you’ll be talking to them in person sooner than later.
There really is no other choice when faced with a tyranny of such an egregious nature that it changes society and harms the majority of the children, that we must stand up against this practice in any and every possible way. Those fools came within an inch of actually seeing us and thousands like us in person in the state of Colorado and they should thank their lucky stars that they never had to, because we would have delivered.
Nobody tells us what we must do with our children. Non negotiable. The line is right here and if they dare to cross it, they can FAFO. Hands off the kids. We’re not profit points for pharmasuetical racketeering. We’re not vaccine hesitant either. We’re not poorly informed or ignorant. We said no to vaccines and we meant it. Not only because vaccines do not actually work as intended, but primarily because they applied the use of force to require our compliance. That’s enough for us, don’t push us around, we are independent people. The very last place we turn to for any health advisement or product safety information is the government. Policy for sale. One has to be a special kind of stupid to actually believe the government is honest and has peoples best interests in mind. The government tends to attract the most ignorant and corruptible among us, with an occasional freedom fighter. Judging any governmental person is quite easy. Are they making new laws attempting to make the people do something, or are they arguing against new laws and trying to provide fewer rules and regulations. It’s really that simple. They’re on the take, or they are not.
No means no. No does not mean anything other than no. We said no to vaccines, we meant no to vaccines, and that’s the end of the argument. We will never ever change our minds. Watching society crumble, vaccine injured people everywhere we look, people are stupid and can’t even perform basic tasks anymore. Well, that’s just further confirmation we made the right decision.
I thought education was about proving (or disproving) positivist theories based on empirical data. If this method of thesis testing is still valid, Newton Public Schools has failed to support their decision on the basis on student safety to force vaccination.
It’s not because Massachusetts public schools are inferior that the hypothesis testing method is so important. Aux contraire, the schools in the State rank among the highest in the country.
Just as higher expectations and standards are held, so too must the legitimacy of the vaccination hypothesis be proven. Anything less is a violation of Newton’s School Board commitment to the science that validates, or does not, the vaccination hypothesis. We do not base the scientific conclusion on emotion but rather facts alone.
Our Health and Human Services Department Secretary, Mr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is taking steps to make America healthier. Among these changes is the removal of thimersol, a vaccine preservative containing mercury. Do the vaccines mandated by Newton Public Schools contain thimersol? Absent enforcement of the new ban, how do we know thimersol isn’t in the required vaccines?
We know Kennedy’s approach is sound, and that the facts support this move. If Newton Schools are serious about the health and safety of its students, vaccine requirements need to be re-evaluated, their safety assessed using unbiased data and researchers without a conflict of interest.
Some of us have been researching the Covid mRNA shots. With Kennedy in charge, the flow of hard data points (see links below) supporting our thesis that Covid vaccines are NOT safe NOR effective has started to come. Unlike trial participants, the sample number is not in the dozens but over 100 million.
If the same school boards that implemented Covid vaccine requirements are using the flawed logic perpetuated by pharmaceutical companies who profit from vaccine requirements, then they are denying the role of reason and science. Remember that it was on the basis of public health that these vaccines were mandated.
The requirements lacked objective research and adequate testing to determine their effectiveness and safety. Looking at the numbers now, how sure are we that the same companies demanding mass vaccinations can be trusted? Or are their financial goals—read greed—the main reason for the aggressive marketing through vaccine mandates? We don’t know. We will someday find out, and with Covid vaccines, the results below speak for themselves.
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2025/07/fda-announces-new-safety-warning-on-all.html?m=1
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/fda-announces-new-safety-warning-all-mrna-covid/
Check out the size of these surveys:
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/1932404086931968495
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fda-slaps-damning-warnings-on-covid-19-vaccines-highlights-biden-admins-safety-risk-gloss?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM
This Hulscher-narrated video is good:
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/1901344944448766465
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Great post. Kennedy is required to play the slow game, due to longstanding propagandist programming of the people. They are true believers. Zealots really.
Ever heard these tag lines; There is no such thing as a safe vaccine. You can not inject health. / The anti vaccine lady whom issued those bumper stickers met a mysterious end, she died young. I’ve still got the bumper sticker in my drawer. Yet another not so mysterious coincidence revolving around the vaccine industry.
My crystal ball is glowing; That state is not going to stay a top performer much longer. You’re sort of missing the point though. The people pushing mandates are either in on the racket, bribed, coerced, or are zealot propagandized people. They are devoid of ethic and integrity and nobody should take anything they say seriously ever again. They have destroyed their own credibility.
(reaches across the internet into superintendent Anna Nolin’s office, pops out of the computer screen) Anna you idiot. You are fired. Go home. Nobody likes you, or your policies. And your breath stinks.
So if the students are vaccinated, they die uneducated. If they’re not vaccinated, they live, and can still go to private schools or be home schooled, and get a real education. Excellent! Don’t get jabbed.