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Updated Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:43 PM
Football trumps flu in Collinsville
Sickness is spreading in Collinsville and school's out for the rest of the week ... but the games must go on.
Collinsville ISD announced Wednesday that classes have been canceled
for Thursday and Friday because of excessive absences. But that won't
stop the Pirates from playing their home football game against Wolfe
City on Friday night, nor will it prevent the Lady Pirates from playing
their volleyball match on Friday evening at Forestburg.
Staff writer Jonathan Cannon tells me that 20 percent of the student
body at Collinsville was out of class on Wednesday, largely because of
flu-like symptoms.
It just seems unusual to me that an activity that draws a large
congregation of people to one place where germs can be spread easily
from person to person would be allowed to continue, while other steps
are taken to stop the spread. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
But then again, in general, classrooms don't pull in money for the school district.
I'm not saying people should panic over swine flu — the University
Interscholastic League did that in late April and we saw the chaos that
caused. Nor am I playing down the health threat.
But using a half-measure to combat the spread of what could be swine
flu is no measure at all. The Collinsville ISD should do the thing that
is prudent for not only its students, but also its fans, many of whom
are elderly, and cancel the games this Friday.
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