So far there’s no signs of panic among parents of schoolchildren in Jackson County.
That was the word from Seymour Community Schools and Brownstown Central Community Schools, anyway, on Friday, one day after we reported on TribTown.com that the first case of H1N1 flu had been reported Thursday in an area school.
Contrary to our initial story online and in print in Friday’s edition of The Tribune, the student is not enrolled in Seymour Community Schools. That was an assumption on our part — something we try not to do is assume — because of the folks involved with reporting information to the public about the county’s first reported case of H1N1. That assumption was easily made, but we shouldn’t have made it. It also could have been avoided had officials simply included the school’s name in their news release.
But that’s another story.
Back to the good news. Seymour schools Superintendent Teran Armstrong said the district’s absenteeism was not up Friday, and Harry Rochner of Brownstown schools said he was not aware of any increase in the number of students home sick Friday.
You can read more about it in January Wetzel’s story in Saturday’s edition of The Tribune and online at Tribtown.com.
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