The Cherokee County (NC) school system has sent word all its schools will be closed on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, “due to the high number of flu cases and illness being reported throughout the school system.”

All able and available staff are requested to “report and assist with cleaning and disinfecting buses and classrooms.”

The symptoms of the flu children may have been experiencing were body or muscle aches, chills, cough, fever, headache, and a sore throat.

Cherokee County NC’s Facebook followers comments from their page include:

• Jeana Conley explained, “Just some info: the CDC has no firm guidelines regarding closing schools but the general rule of thumb has been when schools hit 20 percent. Today for the first time we had 3 schools hit or come close to 20 percent. The CDC research indicates that a day of sanitizing is effective and closing for extended days does not have a greater impact than a day of sanitation. It is not a subjective or easily justifiable decision. We will always maximize what we are allowed to do. As of now only AMS, Peachtree Elementary, and the Early College hit 20% absenteeism with HDEMS following at 16%. All other schools fell in to normal parameters but since schools share buses in our district we were able to justify closing all the schools. I hope this helps everyone understand.”
• Tami Jenkins added “I do not think one day is going to be enough as bad as it is. The school needs to be closed the whole week and cleaned and give people time to get better. There are people like me with lupus and have other low immune diseases and we don’t need this brought home to us, so one day is not gonna be enough to get this sickness cleared up.”

 

For more information or closings, please contact the School Board at 828-837-2722 or visit their FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/Cherokee-County-Schools-NC-118104508239699/.

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