In order to contain the H1N1 virus (swine flu) the Minister of Education and Health made a decision to close all schools in Bahrain. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/newsdetails.aspx?storyid=260145 Riffa Views International School will be affected! From this article (Gulf Daily News) Cody will be out of school until October 18th. Wow, I'm still in shock and a little frustrated! I realize that there has been a couple of cases in Bahrain however; our kids will be exposed while going to the mall, store, swimming pool, restaurants, etc. I'm not sure this is the solution. The Faculty will meet to develop ways to create home/school connections to assist families in maintaining student skills. It seems to me that I will be doing some home schooling for a month or so. Meanwhile, the students will makeup this time by starting school at 7:45 versus 8:00 a.m., two (2) days will be eliminated from spring break, all four (4) faculty improvement days (1/2 days) will be removed from the calendar and the end of the school year will be extended by four (4) days! To RVIS defense they were not involved in this decision (No School). Riffa is required to abide by the decisions made by the ministries that pertain to "private schools". In my opinion, this virus has been contained!!
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I hear you Letty, the schools over here have actually lowered their alert about shutting all the way down. They are still aware but they are not going to the extreme as to what was happening last year with the school closures. Good luck with the home schooling =)
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Renee
Thank you, Renee!
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