Vaccines are good. We should highly encourage them without a doubt. The question is whether the state should force kids to have medicine injected into them, such is exactly what we're talking any here.
Of course, you seem to be ignoring the fact that the state never actually forces children to take vaccines. You always have the option of (for example) homeschooling. Yeah, that's a lot more inconvenient than sending them off to school. But that's the price of stupidity.
Personally I would still feel safe if a few kids in my kid's class didn't have vaccinations as long as my kid did.
"Safe" is not always a simple binary 'yes/no' issue. Your kids will be safer with the vaccine than without. But having unvaccinated kids around decreases the amount of safety .
Denying a kid their right to an education because their parents don't consent to their child undergoing a medical procedure the state wants them to have is a very serious thing.
Children have a right to an education. But children (and teachers) also have a right to be safe.
Vaccines work very well, but they are not 100%... some people (for whatever reason) do not develop the proper immune response, and they can be infected. The potential of loss of education in the unvaccinated child must be weighed against the potential health risks to a child that has been fully vaccinated by still has the potential to be infected. So who's rights take precidence?
Plus, even if you assume "vaccinated kids are safe enough", if you drop the vaccine mandate you have to consider the possibility that overall vaccination rates will fall, thus adding to even more risk.
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