Good evening, I'm Dion Cheney.And I'm Nicole Winters, thanks for joining us.H-1-N-1 has turned up in a couple of the area school districts.Waseca school district had one student suffer the virus prior to the school year, and another student that missed the first week of school to get healthy.Janesville Waldorf Pemberton had a kindergartener go home with the illness on the first day of school, and a staff member has since been diagnosed.There are recommendations the districts are encouraged to follow to sanitize those schools.But as News 12's Erick Lind tells us, that might make for bigger problems than the virus itself.Janesville Waldorf Pemberton schools were clean when the school year started.That didn't stop the H1N1 virus from making its way to a kindergarten classroom on the first day.That sent kids home and left everything needing to be cleaned all over again.JWP superintendent Dick Orcutt says, "They cleaned toys, they cleaned so many things, spent about 2, 2-and-a-half hours in the particular room that evening."The costs for cleaning supplies and the hours it requires isn't cheap, and Orcutt says that poses an additional problem because it's something most districts didn't have planned in their budgets.JWP kindergarten teacher Lindsay Marks says, "Obviously we know the kids are going to get sick and we're going to get sick, but we want to be even more proactive against the whole issue so we can prevent as much as we can."Teacher Lindsay Marks has noticed that the district changed their school supply list for this year to keep the classrooms cleaner.Marks says, "We asked for anti-bacterial wipes and some people have even brought in the sanitizer to use so we don't have to worry so much about the kids getting sick every day."Marks says by asking for the products up front, it will allow the classrooms to budget the resources, using what they need, no more, no less.Orcutt would like to do even more, but says to supply 3 rooms with soap stations would cost at least 100 dollars.That's why he believes the state should help out.Orcutt says, "I've already contacted the Department of Education. Right now the answer is no, as far as for health and safety types of things, but I am in contact with the Minnesota School Board Association and other organizations to see if they can give us any help in this endeavor."And he hopes that however it's funded, they will be able to keep everyone healthier.In Janesville, Erick Lind, News 12.







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