Posted on 04/27/2009 9:41:36 AM PDT by Braak
sti Lamonaca's illness started with a high fever, a cough and achy bones, just a couple of days after she returned from a spring break trip on the beach in Cancun with friends. By the weekend, her voice was hoarse and she was wearing a surgical mask.
The 18-year-old senior was one of a dozen students from several New York City high schools who traveled to Mexico earlier this month, and she thinks she has swine flu. Health officials have confirmed that eight students from her school have been infected with the strain, which has caused a deadly outbreak in Mexico. And they predict the number will grow once additional students, including Lamonaca, are tested.
Authorities in the United States have confirmed 20 cases of swine flu.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Certain mutations of the virus are more deadly than others. While any type of flu can be deadly to the very young and very old, from time to time, certain strains will mutate such that they are deadly to adults. This may be one of those strains.
The teachers with their bureaucrat and trial-lawyer-liability mentality will close school for any reason.
I haven’t seen anything at Wally World.
We found 40 S W at Kame’s......only kind though.
Kame’s is in OH.
I see your point.
Newberry Academy officials in South Carolina said in a statement that seniors were in Mexico earlier this month and some had flu like symptoms when they returned. Calls to the school rang unanswered Monday.
SAT and PSAT? Surely these would have revealed she wasn’t up to speed.
Yikes.
Just saw a blip about four Idaho residents being tested, too.
CNN’s anchors are debating which face masks are the most effective.
Time-Lies media at its “finest”.
Did you actually read this guy's comment or are you just being obtuse for a reason? He said his daughter has an almost 4.0 average, I would guess he means anything from 3.7 to 3.9 or so. He goes on to say that she can't pass College entrance exams. Now where does that give you the idea he failed her somehow or should have been aware she wasn't learning what she needed to learn? She was bringing home the grades, he trusted the grades to accurately reflect her education, apparently the school was handing out grades they shouldn't have, but your are blaming him! Sometimes there are FReepers that just puzzle me to no end, and right now you are one of them.
A Google swine flu map also mentioned 2 possible cases in Indiana :((
Government can't make you hold your mouth to your elbow when sneezing...yet... and can't make you wash your hands when the opportunity is there...yet... BUT the government CAN make all of us pay for masks via tax dollars for our own good and our survival.
Pravda (I mean CNN, sorry..) won't promote personal responsibility via the political agenda they tote against it.
I just watched CNN where the disgusting "acting" CDC director tell me that masks don't work ....
What a frakking idiot
Not if they've looked at the work. Do they talk to the kid, know what books are being read?
I caught a teacher cheating for my son. He passed a test that I KNEW he could not pass (because I had studied with him).
Yes. The SAT and ACT and local community college all are consistent with each other. It’s the local high school that is making her “feel-good” and graduate, while not giving her the tools she needs to continue.
She is our number four of five child. Our number one has had us pro-occupied for over a year and this senior year of this daughters has slipped by rather unchecked.
Our number one and his wife has two kids that have been kidnapped by the state of Nebraska back on 4/1/2008.
Yeah, because NO ONE has ever said anything about how weak schools are. It's totally inconceivable that a school would hand out A's for nothing...
10 years ago I would have sympathized with the parent. Now, we've all heard enough that we should be monitoring how our children are doing ourselves.
Google map to track Flu Hot Spots
According to google map a case in Michigan too :((
Parents who permitted their kids to go, have now, in essence, allowed their kids to bring this flu here. Those kids should never have been in Mexico in the first place. There are plenty of American cities they could have visited and partied in. Why spend the money in Mexico when we already are dealing with subsidizing thousands of illegal Mexican immigrants and Mexico does nothing to keep them from running over our borders. Sometimes people bring on their own dissasters.
See link at #13....Young may be more vulnerable than us older folks....
It's absolutely understandable that this slipped under your radar. You were getting reassuring signs from the school, and had bigger fish to fry. It happens.
What you need to do now is determine whether she has the drive to do the work she's going to need to do now to catch up and whether she has the intellect to catch up. Not everyone is cut out for college work. That isn't a slam, I have a child like that myself.
If you want to go rail at the school board, you can. It might make you feel better to take out your frustration on them. It's unlikely to do any good. They know they've failed these kids. They get all the test scores. You won't be telling them anything they don't already know.
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