05/27/09 READER COMMENTS: School officials continue to release notices that are written in a deceptive manner and demean the intelligence of Greenwich

A school notice to parents posted Tuesday, May 26 at 8:20 PM states: There have been no additional confirmed Greenwich Public Schools cases of the H1N1 flu virus. To date, there have been 11 confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus. Please note that, per the Greenwich Department of Health's May 26, 2009 release, there are 16 confirmed cases in Greenwich residents' only 11 of those 16 are from the Greenwich Public Schools"

Interestingly, the CT Dept. of Public Health (http://www.ct.gov/dph/site/default.asp ) released a notice that there are 11 new cases of Swine Flu diagnosed in Greenwich bringing the total to 16 in Greenwich as of 4:36 PM, Tuesday May 26.

COMMENT:

Dear reader,

The reports do appear to be conflicting and they definitely lack sufficient details.

They appear to be repeating the information they get from the board of health?

As of last night, there were 16 confirmed cases of swine flu in greenwich. 11 of those are the public shoool children that Western Middle School parents knew about late last weekend.

Friday night Greenwich roundup heard that Western Middle School has one teacher positive and 14 students positive for flu and a probable diagnosis for swine flu.

At that time they were waiting for the state to confirm.

There was a meeting at 6 pm Friday at the school.

Greenwich Roundup has heard that there was at least one Hamilton Avenue School student with the flu, but he has not been able to confirm this.

All have been lethargic and suffering from high fever, chills, body aches, coughing etc.

On Saturday some parents in the know were talking about there being There are now 11 confirmed cases among the sixth grade and they wondered if if school would be cancelled.

Greenwich Roundup heard from an Old Greenwich mother who was keeping her children home home because of the virus. she felt that children in Western Middle School have contact with older brothers and sisters at Greenwich High School, and children in the high school might bring the virus to homes in her neighborhood and have contact with children in her child's school.

This Old Greenwich mother felt that the Greenwich Board Of Education should shut down the schools for the duration of the virus's incubation period.

That way those who families who suffered from the flu would become aware of it and those families that did not suffer from the outbreak could go back to a safe and clean school environment.

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