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Albany schools closing due to flu
Classes dismissed today, Friday; will resume Monday
by Ray Scherer
Thursday, October 22, 2009
ALBANY, Mo. ? Officials with the Albany R-3 School District have decided to cancel all classes today and Friday due to the spread of general flu-related illness throughout the system.
Superintendent Bryan Prewitt told the News-Press Wednesday afternoon that more than 20 percent of the district?s 433 students were out with the flu.
?It started out primarily in our elementary school? and then affected the remaining upper classes, Mr. Prewitt said.
?It?s pretty evenly spread? throughout the system, he added of the numbers of sick students involved. ?It hits the young ones harder.?
It?s uncertain which strain of the flu virus is impacting the schools, Mr. Prewitt said.
?We?re just trying to get everybody away from each other,? he said.
Officials currently plan to resume classes in the district on Monday.
In a sign of how rapidly the H1N1 virus is spreading, education officials said 198 schools in 15 states were closed Wednesday because of swine flu, with more than 65,000 students affected. That was up from 88 school closings the day before, the Associated Press reported.
Ray Scherer can be reached at rayscherer@npgco.com.
Albany schools closing due to flu
Classes dismissed today, Friday; will resume Monday
by Ray Scherer
Thursday, October 22, 2009
ALBANY, Mo. ? Officials with the Albany R-3 School District have decided to cancel all classes today and Friday due to the spread of general flu-related illness throughout the system.
Superintendent Bryan Prewitt told the News-Press Wednesday afternoon that more than 20 percent of the district?s 433 students were out with the flu.
?It started out primarily in our elementary school? and then affected the remaining upper classes, Mr. Prewitt said.
?It?s pretty evenly spread? throughout the system, he added of the numbers of sick students involved. ?It hits the young ones harder.?
It?s uncertain which strain of the flu virus is impacting the schools, Mr. Prewitt said.
?We?re just trying to get everybody away from each other,? he said.
Officials currently plan to resume classes in the district on Monday.
In a sign of how rapidly the H1N1 virus is spreading, education officials said 198 schools in 15 states were closed Wednesday because of swine flu, with more than 65,000 students affected. That was up from 88 school closings the day before, the Associated Press reported.
Ray Scherer can be reached at rayscherer@npgco.com.