Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.

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.

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    As conservatives cheer. The only thing conservatives love more than people being sick is people being uneducated.

    Conservatism is a plague in desperate need of a cure.

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      I don’t disagree about conservatives in general but what about this article caused you to post this? The article indicated the district was shifting to online learning, encouraged better sanitation and vaccination.