'I worry about them falling behind': Parents concerned as flu season takes kids out of classroom
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As the flu season impacts school, parents worry about how the time away from the classroom will affect their learning.
As the flu season impacts school, parents worry about how the time away from the classroom will affect their learning.
Michael Schultz’s 10 and 14-year-olds were sick for “a good two weeks” in the fall.
“I thought they were getting over it, then it would come back,” Schultz said. “I worry about them falling behind.”
To help them catch up he is setting them up with a tutoring service starting in January.
“You can’t go anywhere in life without your mathematics. It's very important.”
In the latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program (CRISP) report from the province, about 15.8 per cent of Saskatoon kids missed school.
This was the fourth-highest region in the province with the average being 15 per cent across the board.
