PERRYSBURG – Perrysburg students have yet to feel the full brunt of the H1N1 flu.
Superintendent Tom Hosler told the Board of Education Monday that school officials are keeping a close
watch on the situation, and to date the district’s absentee rate has remained in the normal range,
though at the higher end.
"Students are ill but we haven’t see that kind of hit other districts have with absences in the
double digits," he said, referring to the percentage of students absent on any given day.
"We’re still in the single digits."
Hosler also dismissed rumors that if the number of absent students reaches 100 in a school that the
school will be closed. No such benchmark exists, he sad.
At the junior high, for instance, 100 absences would still be less than 10 percent.
Any decision to close schools would be made in consultation with the Department of Health.
Also at Monday’s meeting, Treasurer Matt Feasel admitted he was baffled by a much larger than expected
state aid payment received in October.
The district is expecting $8.4 million in state foundation aid this year, and that usually comes in
increments of about $700,000 a month. In October Perrysburg received $1.84 million. The only explanation
Feasel could get from education officials in Columbus was that it was a make up from aid that should
have been sent earlier. But Feasel is not convinced that’s the case.
"There was nobody down there who gave me an answer," he said.
Also, with no discussion, the board unanimously agreed to formally accept the resignation of Patrick
Calvin as principal of the junior high.
This summer Calvin pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of property involving the mishandling of funds at
the junior high. In late August, Calvin was ordered by Wood County Common Pleas Court Judge Alan
Mayberry to pay $2,235 in restitution to the district. He also received a 30-day suspended jail sentence
and one year of unsupervised probation.
His resignation was on the board’s agenda in September, but had to be pulled because the district had yet
to receive Calvin’s letter of resignation.