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I attended a conservative US school in the 2000s, in a conservative state. For all the pot stirring uber-Christian parents did, for all the racism, sexism, elitism and raging against even the littlest diversity event, kids just got vaccines. They didn't ask us if we wanted them, we just got them and there was zero fuss from parents about it.
You heard about (and I personally knew some) homeschooled kids, but mentally we lumped them with Amish, "far away" and keeping to themselves.
...Hence this wave of anti-vaxxing is just bizzare to me, even from someone that came from antivaxx land. I'm not sure how "mandatory" it is these days, but it wasn't always like that.