H1N1 Update

Absentee Alerts

Beginning today, the district has implemented an automated absentee call system. Each day as students are absent, the automated system will begin calling parents/guardians to let them know that their child is absent. This improved communication helps make sure students are safe at home or with a caregiver. This Alert Now system has been used to communicate out important news as it develops in the school district, and now adds additional options to enhance general communication between families and the school district.

Update on Visiting the Doctor for Flu

Current guidelines to physicians from the Center of Disease and Control and the Department of Health no longer require testing for swine flu. These organizations continue to advise that students who are well (symptom free) should be sent to school. Students who are symptomatic should be kept home. The district continues to recommend that families with sick children contact their family doctor.

However, it is our understanding that at this time, families may be unable to visit their physician and secure a doctor’s note for absence due to the volume of flu cases in Lancaster County. In order to assist families of sick children who may not be able to see their doctor to obtain a note for extended absence as required by district policy, the district will accept a written parent excuse for a flu related absence between October 1 and the projected end of the flu season, March 31, 2010.

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