By BJ Austin, KERA News
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Dallas, TX –
More than eight thousand students in Dallas and Fort Worth can't return to school until they get their "shots". KERA's BJ Austin says hundreds of parents lined up at the Dallas and Tarrant County Health Departments Friday to get their children the new, required immunizations.
Yesterday, students with incomplete shot records were sent home. And parents were notified that their children could not return to school until they get their shots.
That was a surprise to Tyrus Mornes of Dallas - who spent nearly three hours waiting in line with his daughter.
Mornes: It was new to me because they had already had been in school. They just took out yesterday and told her to go home, and gotta get a shot. It was a surprise. I had to stop work and everything to bring her to get a shot. One shot - some chicken pox shot.
Dallas Health officials began turning people away about 10:30 when the line reached around 400.
Dallas school officials say they had 48 hundred elementary students with incomplete shot records as of yesterday's deadline. Middle and high school figures aren't available. Fort Worth School District: three thousand students must get updated shots in order to return to class.