Can a day care refuse your child if not immunized?

[Guest guest]

We are getting ready to move ro another town, and will have to change

day care providers. My children are currently at a home daycare (not

so much my son since he is in all day kindergarten). She is fine

with the fact that we do not vaccinate and she also has made sure her

grandchildren are not vacciated (we got REALLY lucky :-)

Now that we are moving we will have to find another provider. Here

is what the State of Kansas law states:

" (d) Each child cared for in a child care facility, including

children of the person maintaining the facility, shall be required to

have current such immunizations as the secretary of health and

environment considers necessary. The person maintaining a child care

facility shall maintain a record of each child's immunizations and

shall provide to the secretary of health and environment such

information relating thereto, in accordance with rules and

regulations of the secretary, but the person maintaining a child care

facility shall not have such person's license revoked solely for the

failure to have or to maintain the immunization records required by

this subsection.

(e) The immunization requirement of subsection (d) shall not

apply if one of the following is obtained:

(1) Certification from a licensed physician stating that the

physical condition of the child is such that immunization would

endanger the child's life or health; or

(2) a written statement signed by a parent or guardian that

the parent or guardian is an adherent of a religious denomination

whose teachings are opposed to immunizations. "

I know that public schools MUST accept a religious exceptions but

would that apply to a day care or is it completely the providers

discretion?

andrea