Child immunization rates are low in the silver mining community of Wallace, and school district superintendent Bob Ranells is well aware of it. There is no simple, single explanation. School nurses are expected to manually load data for every individual student — and, as Ranells puts it, nurses went into their profession to help people, not to sit in front of a computer. Other forces are at work. “Our people aren’t the greatest fans of government in this neck of the woods,” Ranells said. The bottom line: Only 54 percent of Wallace’s kindergartners, first-graders and seventh-graders were considered “adequately immunized,” according to 2014 Department of Health and Welfare records. Only four of Idaho’s 115 school districts had a lower rate/Kevin Richert, Idaho Education News. More here.