Western Oklahoma schools battling illness uptick, forcing some to go virtual

Faculties in western Oklahoma are battling an uptick in flu circumstances, which has compelled at the least two to go digital.

Practically 16% of Clinton Public Faculties’ pupil physique was gone Tuesday sick with the flu or different sickness. In line with the district’s superintendent, that is about 330 college students.

Simply down the highway in Weatherford, faculty officers say they’ve round 200 youngsters recovering at dwelling.

Whereas each districts are nonetheless holding lessons in-person, that’s not the case for the Thomas-Fay-Custer faculty district, which moved to digital studying Tuesday and Wednesday. Its superintendent says 35%, or about 160 college students, are out sick.

Late Wednesday, Woodward Center College introduced it is holding lessons nearly Thursday and Friday as a result of rising variety of diseases with college students and workers.

As flu continues to uptick throughout the state and nation, well being officers urge dad and mom to maintain sick youngsters dwelling from faculty and to attend at the least 24 hours after their kid’s fever is gone earlier than returning them to the classroom.

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