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Recession, Swine Flu Cloud US Back-To-School
While some school districts have a limit on how much parents can be asked to spend, Whitehurst said, "at the other end, you'll find districts that are requiring parents to cover more the cost of sports and other extracurricular activities."
With the recession making lower spending the watchword parents are also tightening pursestrings. This year they will spend an average 82.62 dollars on supplies, down 7.7 percent from 2008.
The swine flu scare has retailers and schools scrambling, stockpiling sanitizers and readying for mass vaccinations while preparing online homework plans in case of heavy absenteeism.
In the government's worst-case scenario the A(H1N1) virus, which spreads easily among children, could cause as many as 90,000 deaths in the United States alone. Since it appeared in April the virus has infected about two million people nationally, left 7,983 hospitalized and 522 dead.
The government also fears absenteeism could take an economic toll.
"What we learned last spring is that shutting a school down sort of pre-emptively doesn't stop the virus from spreading," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said recently on NBC.
Official policy includes recommending that teachers prepare for students to use the Internet and laptops, to put homework online, and remain in close contact with students and their parents.
For the winter season, the so-called "Dracula sneeze" is all the rage: wherein one sneezes with their face protected by the crook of their arm so as not to spread disease.
Source-AFP
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