Swine Flu

I think that the swine flu wouldn't spread so fast if the school wouldn't pressure kids to come to school with the semester test. If you are sick with the swine flu they shouldn't hold that against you at the end of the semester. The only reason why most kids come to school is so that they can have perfect attendance or get awards and t-shirts. Some people don't know that they have the flu because the symptoms are like a regular flu. Instead of pressuring kids to stay in school and get each other sick, should be pressured to stay home until they are well. If a child misses so many days and say they have the swine flu then they should bring a doctors note proofing that. People wonder why sometimes it gets so bad that schools have to shut down, its because the kids are pressured to going to school. If they can prove they had the flu with either a doctors note or their parent's bring a note to the school then the days they were absent shouldn't be counted against them when it comes time to give out the perfect attendance awards or doing semester test. If the school doesn't want to do that then raise the amount of day's the students can be absent. Another thing is the parents and their jobs. If either them or their child has the swine flu then they should be able to say home without losing their job. If you are sick then your sick the only thing you can do is go to the doctor but that's not a promise that you will be healed within a day.