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Less than two weeks into the school year, a Kentucky school district has canceled in-person classes for the rest of the week after nearly a fifth of its students came down with Covid, strep throat, the flu and other illnesses.

The Lee County School District, which has just under 900 students, began classes Aug. 9 but noticed attendance drop to about 82% on Friday, Superintendent Earl Ray Schuler said.

By Monday, the rate dipped to 81%, and 14 staff members called in sick, Schuler said.

It's immunity debt from those strict never-ending kentucky lockdowns, right? Or maybe they all forgot how to wash their hands?

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    My professors announced that having COVID is no longer an excuse for missing class. If you're in the hospital from it that can be excused with proof. Otherwise they aren't even recording lectures.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      We lived through a pandemic and got to witness hygeine practices get even worse because of it. Amazing.

    • SeducingCamel [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Love that we can be sick as a dog and they still expect us to work. My boss told me he went to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner and the meat packer literally went "hey man I have covid they made me come in"

    • bumblebeehellbringer [fae/faer, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Wow what the fuck. Can students record the lectures and distribute them for each other? That's such a horrible policy, y'all deserve better.

      Edit to add: Also, what college student can afford to go to the hospital? Fuck that. That's so classist. And ableist.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I don't think students can record. The good news is that the university sells mandatory health insurance if you don't already have it. My last class had 250ish students.

      • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        “Your cancer still allows you to sit and pay attention”