Michael Anthony drove his 13-year-old daughter Aunna all the way from Tacoma to south Seattle to get a chicken pox shot.

“We thought she had got them, but she didn’t,” Anthony explained, “so the school put us on notice to say, ‘Hey, if she don’t get this shot, she can’t come back to school.’”

Aunna was among about half a dozen kids lined up with their parents in the hallway of Aki Kurose Middle School on Monday morning waiting for vaccines. It’s one of the free immunization clinics being held by Seattle Public Schools for kids who are behind on their shots.

Starting January 8, kids whose vaccines are out of date won’t be allowed back to school.

In mid-December, about 2,200 Seattle school kids were told they wouldn’t be allowed back in January unless they got their shots.