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City to shut Boston Latin School because of flu outbreak

The Dorchester Reporter has the scoop.

No word if vampires can contract swine flu.

Swine Flu

By anon (not verified) | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 2:50pm

Anyone in City Hall ever heard of 'senior skip day'? Happens every year right about...now.

Maybe more than that

By adamg | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 3:32pm

Given that the city is also closing a nearby private school.

Senior Skip Day

By Allstonian | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 3:39pm

I thought Senior Skip Day was earlier than this - don't the seniors get out for good around May 15?

Not at BLS...early June.

By anon (not verified) | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 5:57pm

Not at BLS...early June. The prom is early June and graduation is usually the second Sunday in June.

oh for pete's sake...

By greenbrier (not verified) | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 4:17pm

Two hundred kids were sick yesterday, 260 today--ten percent of the school. This isn't senior skip day--it's a nasty, very contagious little virus that thankfully seemss to be pretty mild, at least on this round. My kid's been sick since Saturday and is bummed to miss sports practice all week and a big sporting event next weekend. School, not so much, but to blow this off as some fake-o student prank is really obtuse.

So, what happens

By SwirlyGrrl | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 3:49pm

If swine flu closes the when pigs fly bakery? Would they be past tense?

When Pigs Flu

By adamg | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 3:51pm

And dinosaurs walked among us!

Re vampires

By Sock_Puppet | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 4:01pm

We're the other white meat.

Has it been verified as swine flu?

By panda | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 7:20pm

Well, has it? Has this happened before..?-BLS is a bunch of young person's in a close enviroment, though. It makes sense it'd be hit there before, say, the Conley.

About the vampires-I'm not sure, but vampires can't die, so no worries about Boston's vampire population decreasing ;-).

What else do ya think'll close next?

By panda | Tue, 05/19/2009 - 7:22pm

Latin Academy, O'Bryant, Fenway...who knows?

Of course, I bet other places already have closed-except they're so unimportant it wasn't reported.

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