Staff at Quanah Junior High took a break from the three R's and concentrated on a fourth one-- reducing flu bug germs.

"Is it overkill?  Definitely not cause evidently, no matter what we've done, it's still carried on," says Quanah Junior High Coach and History Teacher, Tim Holt.


    On Wednesday, so many Junior High students were out sick with flu-like symptoms it pushed the absentee rate to 23%.
    So the district's superintendent decided to close the campus.
    That decision came one day after the elementary campus closed because of a 23% absentee rate.

"You have parents who are working and they can't just take off so it becomes hard to try to figure out is this the best thing cause they're gonna have to find somewhere to take those children now and to keep those children,"  says Quanah ISD Superintendent Terry Allen.

    To further combat the flu bug, the district held an H1N1 vaccination clinic for elementary students.
    While getting a mist of protection didn't sit well with some, others, like Hayden Griffin, didn't mind.

"They said it would tickle a bit and I think it tasted like the worst thing I have ever tasted in my life," says Hayden Griffin, a fifth grader at Reagan Elementary.

    But parents and school officials say they'd prefer students have a bad taste than get bitten by the flu bug.

    Forty elementary students received the H1N1 vaccination Thursday.
    And classes there, as well as at the junior high, are expected to resume on Monday.
    Quanah school officials say they're also forced to cancel Thursday's junior varsity football game.
    And they urge anyone who's experiencing flu-like symptoms to stay away from Friday's high school football game.