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Show INFLUENZA AND THE HIGH SCHOOL With the reopening of school come3 the question, is it safe to send my children to school? This article is not intended as a solution of this problem, but as a means of information informa-tion that may help lead to a decision. We might ask. is it safe anywhere? Tf not, where may we find most protection? pro-tection? The following points now in operation at the high cchool may prove enlightening: 1. The foremost health authorities of the state and of the nation have formulated a list of symptoms, not for influenza alone, but for other contagions, con-tagions, for which students ought to be excused from the school room. Each and every teacher is provided with a copy of these, fully explained. Thus each and every instructor becomes be-comes a delegated guardian of yon" childrens' health, and constantly provided pro-vided with the most authentic information infor-mation obtainable. 2. All students are inspected twice daily; the first period in the morning morn-ing and also the first after noon. 3. The school is provided with thermometers for testing the temper-aiiire temper-aiiire of students show,ng any irregularities irreg-ularities of health. 4 To cough or sneeze only with the luise and mouth covered with a C'ean handkerchief, has become the eleventh eleven-th commandment to alt students 5. No loitering in the halls is permitted per-mitted or at any time in the building. 6. Since most classes are not larg"-, t is repuired that students be scattered scat-tered out as far as possible in the class-rooms. 7. It is possible for every student at every hour of school to be under the eye of one designated by the State Board of Health and the State Board of Education to safeguard the lives of the students. The question naturally arises, do the places where the students would spend their time, were they not in school offer the same protection? ' It is now generally conceded that the only means of efficiently handling hand-ling epidemics of contageon is a system sys-tem of systematic education; that it is a matter of co-operative effort on the part of each and every person. A few weeks service as member of the local board of health will convince con-vince the most skeptical. Have we anything better than our educational System to which we can look for just this teaching? Granting for argument's sake that the chances are about equal, does an education mean anything to you at a time In history when education spells success, or the lack of it spells inferior infer-ior classification In the social and and commercial world? Do not surrender to the illusion that the school year is "shot to pieces, anyway!" The School year is not "shot to pieces." Through the home study course which was offered in the high school, every day that has been missed can he made up with but trifling inconveniences, and credit obtained for an entire year's work. Those who missed the home study work may either make it up or there is still two out of the three quarter-terms quarter-terms sull ahead and two-thirds of the year's credit can still be secured. Nothing need be lost unless yop choose to lose it. Whatever may be the educational hopes at the High School, they are subject to the time-honored time-honored slogan, "SAFETY FIRST." |