Std 1 St Mary’s School will reopen on 14th Sep 2009, Till Prep, still closed!

ST Mary’s School Pune Classes Nursery to Preparatory will remain closed as precautionary measure against swine flu, H1N1 Virus.

Std 1 will reopen on the 14th Sep 2009. Classes will be from 7:35 am to 12:35pm instead of the 1:20pm.

I am all smiles and thankful to my gut feeling when I took the decision to not send my kids a week before their schools decided to close down in view of the Swine Flu spread.

There were some very prominent personalities who proclaimed that shutting down the school will not help in spread of the h1n1 virus. There were a few TV channels and a few Newspaper Editors singing the same tune that the Health Minister was singing. But something told me to stick to my decision and keep the kids away from the school, school bus and all such grouped activites. Later the schools also decided to close down, when one by one kids especially the younger ones started to fall victim of the swine flu.

I am thankful that our kids go to schools where the management uses their own head and thinks through before deciding on any directive for or against the notices from the state government.

Today the school administration should be proud that their decision has not only saved lives of tiny tots, but has taught the mighty WHO (World Health Organization) about the important steps to contain the spread of a virus.

Now the question in Pune again arises with respect to the schools. Exactly after a week, which is the incubation period of the H1N1 virus, there were reported 20 cases of deaths and hundreds of new positive cases. Should the schools thats have reopened again sit to think or should they close down again?