(Photo source Clarkton School website)
Clarkton schools are closed again today as the district reacts to 74 flu cases reported Monday.
According to Clarkton Superintendent Delane Beckwith one student is at a Memphis hospital with pneumonia and another is at a Poplar Bluff hospital with influenza.
The district closed Monday, February 6, and mentioned at the time that the schools would reevaluate whether or not to close Wednesday.
That process is ongoing and a decision to close school on Thursday is being discussed. There are 322 students total in the district.