Swine flu in school. what would you do?

My grandson aged 8 came home from school today with a letter, stating that a 5 year child has confirmed swine flu.
After talking with other mums about it. 2 of them have stated that they won't be sending thier child back to school until they know it hasn't spread.

What would you do?
Would you send your child to school hoping they don't get it?
OR
Would you like these keep your child off school?

A little bit different to this but still a bit worrying - my son returned last Friday from a week residential trip at PGL Marchants Hill in Surrey. On Tuesday this week we got a letter saying that one of the children from a different school on the trip had swine flu. Don't really know what to make of it all - we had all this with bird flu and it didn't really come to anything did it ? Not sure what i'd do though if it was confirmed at our school. Maybe they should close the school until they know the true picture ?

Personally I would keep my child off, I dont think the virus would cause a serious risk to my healthy boys but would be devasted if we were responsible for spreading it to somenoe whos health is not as robust.

Thats an excellent point.

Good point.
The child that has the virus is off school, but there is a chance that some of the other children could have caught it from him before he went home sick.

I'd keep my kids at home - then I'd get time off work !

I would keep him off school.

I would ask HA/DoH for advice....but probably send him.

There's gossip round here that somebody at my daughter's school has it - but we have had nothing in writing from the school so it could be just gossip.
But I think I would keep her off.
It's scarey how quickly things spread.
What happens in September - 2 weeks into new term & they are dropping lke flies with colds every single year this happens to mine.

I was talking to my friend in Dunoon about this. Their school was hit recently.She's a nursing lecturer herself and seemed quite laid back about it all. One of the children in her daughter's class had it so the whole class had to take Tamiflu and eventually the school was closed for a week. Karen seemed to think it was more a big nuisance rather than a danger.
It's probably being blown up by the media, but like everything else some people will get it worse than others. I'd like to think I'd carry on as normal in that situation, but TBH when it comes to your child........