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Swine Flu Should Not Close Most Schools, Federal Officials Say

The plan seems to be to set up an emergency center in every school where teachers and children will be sent if they come to school sick and where they can be told to go home. But I think someone needs to explain to some School Systems in Georgia that punishing people who stay home sick needs to be stopped. Mandatory School Attendance laws need to be rethought all the way around. If someone is sick, stay the f home and don't go to school in the first place just to be sent home.

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The guidelines also say that if the flu becomes more severe, additional measures may be needed, like screening staff members and students daily, telling people at high risk and those with sick family members to stay home, and increasing the distance between people at school by moving the desks farther apart.

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Let us hope the Swine Flu fizzles and does not become worse.