Charlotte Christian to reopen Monday after illness forced school's closure

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte Christian School is expected to reopen Monday after the entire school was closed Friday because many students, teachers, and faculty were sick.

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School administrators said a lot of students, teachers, and faculty had different types of illnesses, ranging from a stomach bug to the flu.

HEAD OF SCHOOL BARRY GILLER'S STATEMENT: 

“We decided to be proactive when it became clear that numerous faculty members and students were experiencing illness of various types from the flu to the stomach bug. We wanted to provide our school community an opportunity to stay home and get healthy while we perform a deep cleaning of the campus. 

We believe this was the best course of action to allow sick students and teachers to recover, healthy students to remain well and to prevent additional illness from being spread throughout our school community.”

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Officials said they deep cleaned the entire school over the weekend.

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