Sickness hits Liberty school

Posted: 10.21.2009 at 10:17 AM

Read more: Local, Health, Education, Liberty, Illinois, School, Sickness, Student, Absent

LIBERTY, ILL. -- Another school district geting hit by sicknesses going around is Liberty.

Superintendent Matt Runge told KHQA about 16 percent of students were absent on Wednesday, October 21, most of them due to illness.

That's more than 10 percent higher than normal absenteeism.

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