Influenza, suspected to be the H1N1 variety, struck Sweet Home students hard last week with absentee rates reaching as high as 40 percent at Foster Elementary on Friday.
H1N1 vaccines are scheduled for this Thursday at Sweet Home High School for people ages 6 months to 24 years.
Pretty much all week long, the district has had more than 20 percent absent at four schools, Foster, Crawfordsville, Hawthorne and Sweet Home Junior High, Supt. Larry…