The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest district in the nation, plans to mandate the coronavirus vaccines for all eligible students this week. This is a mistake. Requiring the shots for adults who are independent and capable of making informed decisions is one thing, but forcing minors to get a vaccine that is still being tested to protect them from a virus that is not a threat to their health is wrong.

To be clear, I am pro-vaccination and have been vaccinated against COVID-19 myself. But I do not support subjecting children to a vaccine that we are still studying and testing, especially since children are not at risk of falling seriously ill or dying from COVID-19 in the first place.