By Kayla Gahagan

I read this New York Times story about the swine flu and how the experts can’t seem to decide whether it is best to shut schools down or not.

The debate in this article is interesting and made me think of all challenges that are created for families when they have to figure out child care when a school is closed.

And for a school that does not close, administrators are left wondering whether to have students wear masks, use hand sanitizers … (how you would enforce students to wear masks is beyond me).

I’m hoping that when we do get a lid on this outbreak, the Center for Disease Control sits down and writes a comprehensive, strategic plan they could hand down to public schools in case of another outbreak. Mainly, it would put to rest some of the unnecessary rumors about flu, and answer questions that desperately need to be answered.

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