Archive for Thursday, October 8, 2009
Steamboat Briefs: More students absent at Strawberry Park school
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The absentee numbers increased Wednesday at Strawberry Park Elementary School to 106 students, nearly 22 percent of the student body, said Dot Haberlan, of the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association. On Tuesday, 97 students stayed home sick.
Haberlan, who oversees health services for all Routt County schools, said the absentee numbers Wednesday at the other Steamboat schools remained at or below levels typical for this time of year - between 5 percent and 10 percent of the study body.
At Soda Creek Elementary School, 33 students, or 7 percent of the student body, were home sick.
Steamboat Springs Middle School was down to 19 students, or about 4 percent of the student body. And at Steamboat Springs High School, only 10 students were absent.
Haberlan added that no faculty members were home sick.
District officials have said the high absentee rates at some schools in the past couple of weeks are not a swine flu outbreak, but are a result of a variety of illnesses.
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