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five teachers were out and on Wednesday four were still missing.
As a result students returning after being out sick were not always able to make up exams since the teachers were missing. Some students missed all their exams and by the beginning of this week, there were still students trying to make up exams.
At the elementary school, there are no lists of all students absent prepared, but attendance had been running at 93.5 percent to 95 percent. For the month of January attendance there had dropped to 90%. Building administrators said most of those additional abSee
FLU, p. 16
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