I have not been notified of any confirmed cases of H1N1 among our students as of the time of this writing. There is one highly suspected case. Are students safe at school? Students are as safe at school as they are in any public place. The view that keeping a child home will prevent the child from acquiring the regular flu or the H1N1 virus is flawed unless no one in the home ventures out to a public place, including parents. Viruses can be "brought home" by adults as easily as they can by children.