Gov. Kathy Hochul has been pushing for parents of children ages 5 to 11 to get their children the COVID-19 vaccine, but it isn't sitting well with some.

"How do you know what this vaccine is going to do? It hasn’t been out long enough and tested long enough for them to say that it’s safe," said mom Seraph Millar.

The Pfizer vaccine is currently the only COVID-19 shot authorized for children aged 5-11. The FDA granted emergency use authorization for the vaccine for 5-11-year-olds in October.

Millar says her 6-year-old daughter Amelia won’t be getting the COVID-19 vaccine; in fact, she says if not for the school requirement, her daughter would not have received any of the standard vaccines.

"Why do you get to decide what goes in my child's body? That’s my child. I know her, I know how her body works; I get to decide what goes in her," said Millar.

Millar and fellow mom Beatriz MacBrien are part of an online group of parents who are against vaccinating their kids and they say they worry that vaccines could be mandated in schools.

"It’s not happening; over my dead body will you vaccinate my child against our will at the school," said Millar.

"This is the armor we have to wrap our kids in as they go off to school and off to play with friends," said Gov. Hochul said of vaccines in January.

A CDC report from December indicated "Hospitalization rates have been shown to be 10 times higher among unvaccinated adolescents compared with fully vaccinated adolescents."

According to the New York State Department of Health, only 38 percent of children in the 5-11 age group have gotten the shot, compared to 76 percent of children aged 12 to 17.

"My son is five years old, and we got him vaccinated literally as soon as we possibly could," said mom Justine Snihur.

Snihur has taken every precaution at the Saugerties Ballet Center to keep her students safe, so vaccinating her son was an easy decision to make.

"My husband and I wanted every level of protection that we could get for him, so it was just a sense of relief," said Snihur.

And she says her son is loving being vaccinated.

"He wants to flex that vaccine card everywhere he can; he is so proud," said Snihur.

So it's hard for her to hear that some parents are choosing to not vaccinate their kids.

"It bothers me when you read one article and so you're like, 'I'm not gonna get the vaccine,' " said Snihur.

Sakinah Irizarry, a massage therapist, has two sons Max and Alex, aged 11 and 13, respectively. She got them vaccinated as soon as she was able.

"My oldest, I got vaccinated the very first day the very first morning that it was available to his age group," said Irizarry. "It gave me a great deal of relief in terms of sending them to school and sports."

But some parents like Millar don't feel the same sense of relief. She feels her children should be exempt from the vaccine.

"My kids have already had COVID and we've all had COVID, so why do I need to be vaccinated against something that I already have a natural immunity to?" said Millar.

According to a CDC study, in people who have recovered from COVID-19, those that don’t get vaccinated after recovering are more than two times as likely to contract COVID again. The CDC also encourages all school-aged children to be vaccinated.