Organizers planned to offer the shot to 12th grade students only, but not as many pre-registrations came in as expected, said White Plains High School principal Emerly Martinez. So they opened the clinic to all students ages 16 and older and district staff.
“Even if it’s just 45, 50 of them, it’s worth it,” Martinez said. “If we’re able to provide the students an opportunity to visit family, to work a job this summer, to safely attend college, to me, it’s worth it for a school to provide that.”
Kimberly Hernandez, a senior, said she was getting the vaccine so she can safely visit her grandmother in Georgia for the first time since the pandemic began. She would have needed it eventually, anyway, to attend Manhattanville College in the fall.