Every country in the world has anti vaxxers....

It really depends on where you live, there are vast differences from state to state on how much emphasis is put on science. I think there are still states that teach how God created the world in 6 days and how the only thing preventing pregnancies is abstinence.

Honestly it's not a US thing! Stupid uneducated people are all around the world protesting in the streets! Nobody seems to remember their school years

Even if they did, one teacher telling them how vaccines work is no match for the thousands of idiots, including their close relatives, telling them cow dung.

Yes we do, though I can’t speak for the homeschooled—-especially if their parents are anti-vaxxers.

Schooled in the US - I was taught the basic concept of doing a practice round against the virus so your immune system learns exactly how to kill it in the future. However, none of this matters to antivaxers who can just claim that any information they don't like is a product of the government-controlled school/Hollywood/media/illuminati.

You should watch the social dilemma. It explains how, if you are in an area full of ignorant people, even information searched for on the internet will be tailored to the ignorant because that's who is around you. It all comes from people having a ridiculous belief that religion should somehow have anything to do with education. They do teach about vaccines everywhere, but they also allow for regional education to be affected by what ignorant parents want their kids to not learn (i.e. sex-ed, critical thinking, respect and understanding for other people/religions, etc.) There are schools that TEACH creationism. Imagine growing up with parents who don't believe in science, going to a school that teaches creationism as a valid theory, and then typing in climate change and seeing "is a hoax" as the first search because of who lives near you. All hope is lost here.

No because "babby Jeebus" gets sad when kids learn science or some blather. After all, it's harder to maintain a cult when the members are educated. And then how will the preacher buy another Rolex witout using the fear of hell to extort money (sorry...tithes) from his flock? Apparently they think Jesus said "FLEECE my sheep," not "FEED my sheep."

Yes. but soem parents apparently forgot before they *had* kids of their own. Why do you think there's so many kids hitting age 18 and going for all their shots? :-)

There has been a sort of anti-science movement in the southern US where some schools can't teach sex ed other than abstinence and there has been a push to not teach evolution, for example. So, while a lot of US schools do teach how vaccines work, there will be some that don't or at least don't do a great job of it.

They die before reaching that part of the curriculum...

Well, i am in 7th and have not been taught. Thank god for my mother and her being all for vaccines

No. I found out off the internet

Serious answer: kids in the US don't learn much.

I did, but I also couldnt attend school without having my vaccinations up to date. I'm 38 if curious how long ago school was...

yeah most of the time we do

They can't even figure out the rules of the apostrophe, let alone how a vaccine works!

Only if they study Edward Jenner instead of Kendall Jenner....

no, actually...

As a kid in the us, yes.

It might come up in some high school biology classes, but mostly probably not.

If you're parents are pro vax, they will tell you. I'm assuming if you have anti vax parents you ask someone doctor or something.

As an American student, no

No. They are too busy learning how to handle a gun.

Unfortunately, no

Seriously: you've read what their parents have to say. What do you think?

Most kids in the US don't learn very much because schools are supported by property taxes and most folx are midlin' to poor, which is reflected in their education system. I'm surprised most of them can read, never mind learning about vaccines.

It is all explained very clearly in biology. Unfortunately, some people are just stupid.

No they learn about antifa and critical race theory. No time for science.

I don't recall ever been taught and neither has my daughter. You have to go to University, in a medical or a microbiology field to learn how vaccines work.

No they don't. Same as other countries.

It ought to be mandatory.

These aren’t all Americans who are posting this, and, yes, anybody with sense teaches their kids how vaccines work. Health classes in elementary school also teach kids how vaccines work

Yes we do idk how these people exist

Yes. But if homeschooled by idiot parents, then no.

No

yah

No

I did - Edited to include that my school is pretty different from regular schools and we (the students) mostly get to choose the science topics we learn about

Honestly I don't recall a single time at school when I was taught about how vaccines works. But I remember TV spots and leaflets pretty much saying that vaccines were to prevent diseases, and I that made sense for me as a kid. I mean, so for my parents. I even recall my mother telling us how her mother would take them in a 2 hours travel to the nearest town (they were from a rural community) to get them vaccinated. I cannot comprehend why people refuse them so vividly

well, they do, (for example me) but im pretty sure when all our parents were in school they didn't....

I've learned this in public school via health classes. However I'm not sure what homeschooling is doing for other kids.

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No, because they're religious private ones.