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Hmph! That settles THAT!!!
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 11:36 amI have put the Fear of Auntie into the school district.
This is the Impertinent Daughter's take on my reaction to her telling me about what happened yesterday...
I think I was much calmer than that. Probably more like this...
Anyhow, the district and the junior high have been falling all over themselves trying to do damage repair, and find out who dropped the ball and make sure it never gets dropped again. In fact, the principal at the junior high called me at 7:20 this morning (fortunately, I was up) to reassure me that every single teacher at the school was fully aware of the consequences of swine flu, and that they were to send any student that seemed sniffly, or had a headache or complained of body aches to the nurse RIGHT AWAY, and that they were in no way trying to boost and/or keep attendance up for the TAKS testing.
Hmph.
And I said, "From what I understood yesterday, the student in question had been feeling bad since Tuesday, but came in to take the test, that the teacher knew she was feeling bad, but said she could go to the nurse after taking the test, and that the student then hugged several of the OTHER students on her way out. Because she was leaving, not going to the nurse."
I don't think I've ever really heard someone hyperventilate over the phone before.
Needless to say, she went on to assure me that the custodial staff has been wiping down every surface in the school with disinfectants (I didn't bother to ask if they included library books on that list of surfaces), and will continue to do that several times a day for the duration of this emergency, that they are monitoring this situation with all possible attention, etc, etc, et all...
Well, at least they're finally, finally on the ball. And all U.I.L. events at Texas schools, including sporting events have been canceled until May 11th, several more schools have closed...
I'm just glad that I scared them into doing what they should have been doing from the very beginning. Now, if they can just keep the momentum going!!
I'm off to run errands, and pick up some more hand sanitizer for my kids to keep in their bags.
Jays, this town sometimes just... chaps my hide!!
This is the Impertinent Daughter's take on my reaction to her telling me about what happened yesterday...
I think I was much calmer than that. Probably more like this...
Anyhow, the district and the junior high have been falling all over themselves trying to do damage repair, and find out who dropped the ball and make sure it never gets dropped again. In fact, the principal at the junior high called me at 7:20 this morning (fortunately, I was up) to reassure me that every single teacher at the school was fully aware of the consequences of swine flu, and that they were to send any student that seemed sniffly, or had a headache or complained of body aches to the nurse RIGHT AWAY, and that they were in no way trying to boost and/or keep attendance up for the TAKS testing.
Hmph.
And I said, "From what I understood yesterday, the student in question had been feeling bad since Tuesday, but came in to take the test, that the teacher knew she was feeling bad, but said she could go to the nurse after taking the test, and that the student then hugged several of the OTHER students on her way out. Because she was leaving, not going to the nurse."
I don't think I've ever really heard someone hyperventilate over the phone before.
Needless to say, she went on to assure me that the custodial staff has been wiping down every surface in the school with disinfectants (I didn't bother to ask if they included library books on that list of surfaces), and will continue to do that several times a day for the duration of this emergency, that they are monitoring this situation with all possible attention, etc, etc, et all...
Well, at least they're finally, finally on the ball. And all U.I.L. events at Texas schools, including sporting events have been canceled until May 11th, several more schools have closed...
I'm just glad that I scared them into doing what they should have been doing from the very beginning. Now, if they can just keep the momentum going!!
I'm off to run errands, and pick up some more hand sanitizer for my kids to keep in their bags.
Jays, this town sometimes just... chaps my hide!!
