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Chisum ISD closes campuses until Thursday
Staff Report
Published September 29, 2009
Chisum Independent School District is closed today and Wednesday due to excessive illness.
“We are at 83 percent attendance with 143 students absent today and 10 staff members out,” Superintendent Diane Stegall said Monday.
Classes are to resume the regular schedule Thursday.
The district volleyball game between Chisum and Prairiland at Pattonville for tonight has been postponed until Thursday. (See related story on page 14.)
Carole Hill, nurse with the Paris/Lamar County Health Department, said Type A flu (regular flu) is the most prominent diagnoses of current illnesses. Results from a suspected case of swine flu (H1N1) have not yet been received from the state health department.
Length of illness depends on several factors, Hill said.
“Partly it depends on a person’s immune system,” she said. “Also, if Tamiflu is taken within the first 72 hours of the time symptoms begin, it may shorten the length of illness.”
Although there is sickness in some Lamar County schools, not all are affected in the same way. Prairiland had an increased number of illness at individual campuses for the past couple of weeks but not at the same time.
“Yesterday we were at 96 percent attendance district-wide,” Superintendent James Morton said.
Roxton Superin-tendent Dan Pickering said early today his district has not been affected.
“Our attendance is awesome,” he said. “Hope we don’t get it.”
North Lamar and Paris schools are experiencing some illness but as of Monday, no more than normal, administrators reported.
Cooper, a neighboring school district to the south in Delta County has not been affected.
“We had 95.7 percent attendance Monday,” said Linda Waller, assistant to the superintendent.
Neither has Detroit school district to the northeast had an increase in absences.
“We’ve been lucky so far,” Superintendent Steve Drummond said.
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