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Scarlet fever closes school
Dayton View Academy, a charter school at 1416 Riverview Drive, closed Thursday because 100 students and 16 staff are showing symptoms of scarlet fever. Dayton View has about 1,000 students in grades K to 8.
“In order to be proactive we closed the school today so we could disinfect the building and reopen as germ free as possible,” Principal Amy Doerman said.
Doerman said nobody knows how they outbreak began, but the school has called in its day and night janitorial staffs to use special germ-killing cleaners to disinfect the school. Dayton View was to be closed Friday for parent-teacher conferences and Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, so it will not reopen until Tuesday.
Parent-teacher conferences will still be held Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Those showing symptoms will not be allowed to back at school until they bring a doctor’s note clearing them to return.
Doerman said school officials do not know how the outbreak began but are working with the Combined District of Montgomery County to inform parents about what symptoms to look for.
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