Swine flu, with 63 more confirmed cases, closes Boston's biggest charter school

Dying down everywhere else in the country except in the Northeast.

This is getting pretty ridiculous. There are atleast 2 confirmed cases of the H1N1 Virus at Boston Latin Academy. Yet, students are still being exposed to this virus and many other sicknesses going around. As a student there, I've noticed that in the past couple of days many students were sick, yet still came to school because their parents made them. The only reason why BLA isn't closed is because of the "low absences". Today, there were atleast 7 kids missing in each one of my classes. I don't care about school getting canceled for the sake of I get days off. I don't want to get sick. Someone needs to do something about this.

The Commissioner better not give those a waiver for less than 180 days of school. Central Mass schools had to give up vacations, stay late and go Saturdays. There's still time between now and June 30 for those kids to make up any missed days that are short of the 180. Kiss Bunker Hill Day good bye.

Swine Flu is just as deadly as no heat in sub zero weather for two weeks.

This is all such a non-event. Newsflash, people sick, Big deal.

I will say it here before it hits the news- these are not CONFIRMED cases of swine flu that are keeping kids out of school. Rumor has it that kids are calling in sick en masse as a prank-coordinating through texting and on AIM.

@yeswecan - a number of the cases at BLS were actually confirmed cases. As of Tuesday there were 6 people confirmed with H1N1, and a lot of other people out with a seasonal flu.

About the Central Mass stuff - I agree, that sucks, but part of the problem is that it's only certain schools, and it's different numbers of days in different schools, and different levels of schools, and although there might be time to make it up, it's not just the making up of days, but also coordinating schedules so that those make-ups an happen. BPS does a lot of busing for its students that works on a very complicated schedule, so they would have to be able to secure the buses for any different times they need. There are a lot of other factors that play into it than just making up the days to hit 180.
Also, a lot of people (myself included) have summer programs that already overlap with school for a week. I may have to take 2 finals early. Just because you push the school year to its limit doesn't mean that everyone will show up.