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They've actually closed schools in my area for 2 days for mass sickness.

Weird. I don't remember that ever happening in all my years of school. Maybe it's a recent, post COVID thing?

There was no official shut down here. But the teachers and about 45% of the kids @ child’s grade level were out sick last week. So was definitely not business as usual either.

It's a thing that some districts have done for a decade or two now, but it's fairly rare.

I wrote a paper on alternatives to full school closure in 2008.

Some districts have done it for far longer than that. It has occasionally happened in the schools in my area at least 100 years.

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