My 16 YO son is getting his 2nd Pfizer dose on Saturday, and if it is approved, my 14 YO daughter will get it, although I'll probably check in again with the pediatrician to make sure they are recommending it for their patients in this age-range (they are a vaccination site, so I'm guessing yes).
I live in a small but densely populated town that was hit early and fairly hard by the pandemic. About 1 in 12 people in my town have had covid, although not sure where that fits with the national average. The school system - open hybrid since October, then full time in April, tracks cases and contact tracing efforts. Back in the early winter, the school nursing staff said that pediatric cases counted for about 20% of our town's cases, but since then we've had two large outbreaks so not sure what the percentages would be now. Other than the larger outbreaks, it's usually a few cases per week. For April, there have been 18 cases and 177 kids followed. I've known lots of kids that have had it, and it has ranged from minimal issues to severely sick and/or symptoms months after infection.
In some ways I feel a little bit of an ethical struggle. We appear to have a surplus and are in a position to vaccinate younger children, when there are places in the world that have greater demand for their healthcare workers and more vulnerable populations at this point. There definitely seems to be an emerging ethical debate about it from what I read/hear from public health professionals. However some say that younger people, including kids, are driving the spread more at this point, and I can say that is true from personal observation in my community. Both my kids have some minor underlying conditions so I will go ahead.
Before I read this thread I was thinking about it with respect to school...there were a couple of cases in my daughter's middle school this week - not unusual. One student was in her music class so half of the class is now in quarantine. My daughter is not because it's held in a large theater room and the far side was not determined to be a close contact. Anyway, her friend - the son of an old friend - has to quarantine and it is the 3rd time this winter he has had to do so. I'm wondering as things evolve if a student is vaccinated it will lessen the quarantine restrictions, like it does in my state with travel/quarantine restrictions. So not regarding being able to attend, but more if a case is identified and isolated, students being able to continue school and extracurricular activities. Who knows...