http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/12/decatur-schools-take-precautionary-steps-against-h1n1-virus/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/12/decatur-schools-take-precautionary-steps-against-h1n1-virus/#comment-15590 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:25:06 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-15590 Viruses are most contagious in the very early stages before we even know we’re sick. You’re being exposed long before you know about it. Just keep washing hands and nagging the kids to stop putting their hands in their mouths and to not eat/drink after other people!

]]> http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/12/decatur-schools-take-precautionary-steps-against-h1n1-virus/#comment-15565 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:08:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-15565 Excellent question to pose to CSD and excellent response. An outgrowth of actions 2. and 3. is that “perfect attendance awards” ought to be suspended for at least this year. At least some CSD schools have had these awards in the past. The more familiar situation is kids wanting to stay home sick; but some kids with a perfect attendance record are so hot on maintaining it that they will try to go to school no matter what, even if ill. (Admittedly, this tends to be the littler kids and not the older, more jaded students!). If these kids’ parents aren’t alert to this being a problem, especially if they have jobs that make it hard to take a day off–and in this economy with fewer workers doing more, many jobs at all levels are that way–kid’s can end up at school with maybe mild or early, but contagious viral illnesses.

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