Vaccinate your kids or keep them home. It was supposed to go into effect in two weeks. Now it wont happen because the regulation has been struck down. The ruling means that parents in new york city will have the choice, vaccinate your child against the flu or dont. No one is being prevented from getting a flu shot. Every parent can get one. They are not required to do so. Reporter Michelle Carol is one of several parents that sued the city insisting that officials could not mandate flu vaccines. The judge agreed. Only the new York State Legislature retains the Statutory Authority to mandate vaccinations, not already expressed within the Public Health law, end quote. In other words, the flu vaccine was not one of them. We vaccinate our kids for a couple of reasons, to protect them and those around them that cant get vaccinated for medical condition or some other reason. We do it for ourselves and others. Reporter if she had been vaccinated, amanda would have been 16 years old today. Ins