Texas and swine flu...

I empathize with you peeps with small children. 

I wondered about single parents and folks who don't have child care arrangements.  I was telling my co-worker this morning they need to shut down the malls and grocery stores also, if you are going to be this drastic.

I wonder if daycare centers are going to accept all these kids in closed down schools/districts.  I would be pissed if I had a baby and all of a sudden this possibly infected 2nd grader is in my center.

Well, I am hearing that the daycares are not suppose to accept the sick kids.... President Obama encouraged everyone to look for alternate non-day care arrangements....so in essence...its either going to be the parents, grandparents, another family member or friend that has to take care of the child. 

Out of 200 kids though only 1 or 2 is actually sick--the rest have just been exposed.  So every parent is not going to stay home with their exposed but no symptom child.  Then if you look at it from the perspective that the daycare child has older siblings the goes to a school where they are exposed, so then the daycare child is also exposed.  That's why this whole thing is so ridiculous--every day we are exposed to millions of germs. 

It's a crapshoot on who gets it, who doesn't.  Obviously you can take precautions but there is no sure guarantee and closing a district isn't going to do anything.

Yes...I am sure they are only talking about the ones that have symptoms.... The school district was definitely premature in its decision.

Sorry....I misunderstood your message the first time I read it....I think that really what it boiled down to is the School district has passed the buck.  The daycare centers that now accept these kids...really need to employ universal precautions...something the school district should have done....they just took the easy way out....so they think....then they are going to want those same kids to come back and later make up days...at least that how they operate around here....just plain crazy. 

There are two schools here in our district that shut down for 7 days.  They don't go back till May 6.

So are you and Becca babysitting this week? 

Hey,.. I don't know  if anyone has said this and I am to buzzed to read all that schitt,.. but my son's school sent us a heads's up that they might close on Monday after taks... he goes to school in colleyville.

But n.e. way when its health related they said the kids don't have to make it up... just what they told us!!

Steph

Yeah everyone is looseing itrunning around panicking. Here in my part of Texas they have canceled ALL field trips,UIL, sprots trip. No students can leave out of town.