Students can't be part of main graduation

[croxeye]

www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/01/swine.flu.schools/index.html

Dan Godshall and 21 other students at Slippery Rock University will not be allowed to graduate at their school's main ceremony because they recently visited Mexico.

The students, who returned this week after student teaching in Mexico, came back to the United States early because they were worried the border would be closed and they'd miss out on walking at their graduation.

But now, they'll be walking in their own graduation, without any of their classmates, because the college feared they made have been exposed to the H1N1 flu outbreak in Mexico.


GET A GRIP STUPID PEOPLE!!!

gawd I would hate to be part of that group. It reminds me of the "AIDS scare"

[TW]

This is playing out at a lot of colleges.

[packerbap]

The discussion in my part of the country...will they shake hands when handing out diplomas.

[amoeba15]

This SUCKS!!!

In the past, it was alright to go away for Spring Break to Mexico and other places and come back home with STD's, but NOW swine flu --- WTF.

I wonder whether students feel that they got their money's worth.

This may put a new perspective on US students and where and how they vacation doing Spring Break.

A Link Between Spring Break & Swine Flu?

April 30, 2009 1:39 PM

This morning, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Friedan spoke of an interesting theory. He was giving a daily update on the number of New Yorkers who are now confirmed to have the H1N1 flu. Of the 49 cases in New York, 47 of them are associated with St. Francis Prep high school, a very large parochial school in the city. Why this school and not others? We know that students from the school traveled to Mexico on their spring break. But Mexico is a destination for lots of New York City students on break. It turns out that the St. Francis break comes one week after the New York City public schools. Perhaps, said Friedan, the later break may have placed the St. Francis students in Mexico during a more contagious time period, more contagious than the week before. Again, its just a theory.

blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/04/a-link-between.html

[amoeba15]

BTW, I find it very hard to believe that the US does not have the technology to timely and efficiently test these students to determine whether they have the H1N1 flu, so that the students can still be part of their graduation ceremonies.

[croxeye]

amoeba, the outrage that I was having was that they were STUDENT TEACHING in mexico, they weren't just partying down there over Easter break or something. They were TEACHING kids.

[amoeba15]

May 3, 2009 8:14:42 GMT -5 croxeye said:

amoeba, the outrage that I was having was that they were STUDENT TEACHING in mexico, they weren't just partying down there over Easter break or something. They were TEACHING kids.

Yes, that is much worse then kids partying.

However, I still can not understand why US technology is neither timely nor proficient enough so that these kids can be cleared by health officials and be allowed to be part of their graduation ceremony.

[packerbap]

It appears that cases being confirmed by CDC takes longer. I know hospitals in Milwaukee have the capabilities to test for the virus. We are finding out about our cases much faster.

[TW]

CDC hates to allow anyone else to get into the mix. It's a question of justification of jobs.

They'd much rather say that they're "understaffed," and let things fall behind, than to hand off to locals, who could react quicker.

All they allow locals to do is give "preliminary" evaluations, and the CDC will approve it, after they do their tests.

[croxeye]

The CDC is one of the biggest bureaucracy's in America, and we all know what their policy is, HEY lets sit on these for 3 months, look at it for 10 minutes, then give a half-cocked guesstimate of what people might have!!