Francis W. Parker School closed its doors on Friday due to flu symptoms from over 100 students. The school made a statement that it will reopen its doors. Francis W. Parker School, a private school in Chicago made the decision to close its doors for school and for the annual fair for safety reasons. The schools principle claimed it made its decision to be safe rather than sorry. Their decision was most likely made easier with the recent death of a student at Naperville North High School. This idea that they decided to be safe rather than sorry contradicts their plans in early May, when a student had a confirmed case and even with much push from the Federal Government. This particular school has K-12, and they claimed when their younger students started showing signs it would be harder to contain the virus if it started to spread, if any of them had H1N1 at all. With this sudden closing of a school, how many more Chicago schools will also be closing their doors to be safe rather than sorry. I do not believe that these schools should be closing the school doors just because of flu like symptoms. This is flu season, kids are going to get sick, they do every year. If there was a confirmed case at the school it might be different, but do to the fact that none of these kids had one I believe the school was scared by the Naperville student and closed its doors prematurely.
Article can be found on the Chicago Tribune website
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