My son's junior high shut down by Swine Flu. Holy shit!

[byronius]

Here's the official pronouncement:

"Dear Holmes Parents,


Near the end of the school day today we were officially notified by Yolo
County health officials that a student at Holmes has been classified as
having a "probable" case of H1N1, previously known as Swine Flu. In
accordance with the directives of the state and county public health
protocols, that classification requires closing the school for 7
calendar days. Therefore, Holmes will be closed all 5 days next week,
May 4-8.


In addition, siblings of Holmes students, regardless of their school of
attendance, are also quarantined for the same period of time. At this
point, quarantine means confinement to the home. We will provide
additional information as soon as possible.


We know that there will be many questions and concerns to be addressed
and will move to provide updated information via listserves, the
district website www.djusd.net, local media and internal phone messages.
At this moment, we ask for your patience so that we have a few hours to
initiate our plans to keep children safe and set communication and
health protocols in motion.


The students at Holmes will be sent home at the end of the day without
this information so that we have a brief window to inform parents and
have an orderly and safe dismissal.


Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation with our effort to
ensure the best possible outcome to this situation."


My son's friends are all texting about how it's going to be straight out of "I Am Legend". Jokes aside, none of them are happy about the home confinement.

Weird.