The latest disaster in Red State Capital City Suburb is the epidemic. I'm not sure what it's an epidemic of, but apparently 150 or 180 or 250 or 20% or 50% of the kids at the middle school were absent on Thursday, so the school district took the dramatic step of shutting down on Friday so that everyone would have four days to recover.
News Center 6 came to M's school and filmed her class on Thursday afternoon, so we piled into bed to watch the six o'clock news that night. The reporter was live in front of the school, reporting, and they showed one of M's teachers explaining to the kids that school was closed so they would all have time to get better. They showed the backs of a few of M's friends' heads, but not M, to our great disappointment. Then they switched to near-pornographic close-ups of doorknobs, water fountains, and computers as the reporter, now in voiceover, explained that not everyone would have the day off, for the janitors would be deep cleaning the school to get rid of all the germs.
Nobody in M's class was sick, with whatever it is, so they were all just excited to have a four-day weekend with lots of time to socialize: M played with S on Friday, L on Sunday, and E on Monday.
Then, of course, she got sick tonight. With whatever it is (so far a fever, some aches, and a lot of whining). Just in time to not go back to school.
That day off sure did make a difference!
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