DEPEW, N.Y. (WKBW) — There are many milestones in a high school senior’s year that students dream of reaching. A Depew High School senior is missing out on several, after being removed from school over a vaccine booster.

"I just sit and scroll, there's really not much else I could do," Kayci Rae said. "It's more emotional with it being my senior year. I feel like I'm shunned from Depew."

She was escorted out of school on October 16.

"They wouldn't let me say goodbye to teachers, they wouldn't let me go into the classroom," Rae said. "I was in tears. It was hard, it was truly devastating, honestly."

It's all because she didn't get the meningitis booster after a bad reaction to the first dose she had in middle school.

"She had leg pain," Andrea Billi, her mother, said."You know, when yo

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