Earlier this month, students at Exeter High School in New Hampshire were labeled unvaccinated and vaccinated with pen.
In an announcement posted to the school website, administrators supported the policy. Throughout the prom, students were required to raise their hand every few songs so that event organizers could 'determine who they were around.'
The school announced that it does not know of any COVID-19 cases connected to the prom. It said that only one of the organizers possessed a list of prom attendees in which figures written corresponded to the names of students.
The prom attendee list does not have any personally identifiable information on it regarding student vaccinations and did not list the numbers assigned to students,' according to the school.
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'Only a single set of cards with this information exists for tracking purposes and the class advisor was the only individual that possessed them.
'Those cards will be destroyed in the next few days.'
The move ignited outrage among some parents and attracted criticism from a state lawmaker.
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According to Republican state Rep. Melissa Litchfield, children who had not been vaccinated were labeled with the black Sharpie.
Those who had been vaccinated were marked with a red pen.
'You had to produce your papers, and if you didn't produce your papers, you were branded with a black Sharpie,' Litchfield stated.
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'What does that mean to you? I'm just going to let that sit there.'
According to Litchfield, parents were not informed about the move ahead of the event.
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The state lawmaker made a Facebook post bringing awareness to the incident.
One unimpressed parent stated: 'We truly feel they are literally branding our kids if they don't get the "approved vaccine."'
In an emailed statement given to NBC10 Boston, Principal Mike Monahan defended the choice, stating: 'Our student and parent feedback has been extremely positive regarding the prom experience.
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'We are aware that some concerns have been expressed that students were singled out or had their privacy violated.
'We made every effort possible – while adhering to contact tracing guidelines – to ensure that this did not happen.
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``We hope the community will understand that while no model is perfect, this model lets the students enjoy a close to normal and highly desired experience to cap off their senior year.
'That's the memory we want to leave them with.'
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