Over 150 Students Come Down With Flu

More than 150 students at Falls Valley Elementary School called in sick or went home with flu-like symptoms, prompting school officials to check the building for a possible cause.

They inspected the cafeteria, garbage cans and tested water fountains to make sure chlorine levels were normal after the majority of the students left by mid-day Friday.

The search turned up nothing abnormal.

Around 8 a.m., calls from parents with sick children started coming in.

When attendance reports showed nearly 120 students were missing, Principal Paul Sewell and his staff began to worry. On a normal day, about four to six students call in sick. The school has a student population of 515.

Some classes were missing one student, while others were missing nine, 10 or 12.

Sewell called the Bonneville School District office to see if other schools were experiencing the same thing, but attendance levels were normal.