By Hailey Higgins, Local News 8 Reporter

BONNEVILLE COUNTY - The flu is causing more problems in the classroom and having a ripple effect for the parents of sick kids.

District 93 said Monday is its worst day so far for students staying at home because of flu-like symptoms. They are expecting it to get worse.

Amy Jackson drives a school bus in Bonneville County. Her 15-year-old son was one of the first to get swine flu.

"He said he didn't feel good, so I said, ‘Lets take your temperature." As soon as he had a temperature, I said, "You're not going to school," explained Jackson.

When her 10-year-old son got sick not long after that, she was in a tight spot. Should she stay home and take care of her child or drive children to school?

"I just took him to somebody else who could help me take care of him," she said.

Hundreds of parents were faced with that same decision Monday.

Bonneville Joint School District 93 said 300 elementary kids were home sick Monday, many with flu-like symptoms.

That's 10 percent, over half the normal absent rate for this time of year.

"This is deeply concerning," said Guy Bleisner, safety coordinator for District 93.

He said the district is still seeing a significant impact of the H1N1 flu.

"And the problem is, because people get the chance to be infected over and over again, we could stay at this 10 or 11 or 12 percent for a long period of time," said Bleisner.

District 93 seems to be hit the hardest in our area with 90 percent of kids coming to school.

 Idaho Falls District 91 and Jefferson School District are at 93 percent attendance, about the same as last year.

The spud harvest is sparing schools from the flu this week for Madison, Fremont, Shelley, and Firth School Districts.

Snake River, District 25 and Blackfoot School Districts didn't have absentee numbers available.

The flu season is far from over and it will continue to have a ripple effect on parents like Jackson who have to figure out what to do when their sick child has to stay home.

"And when you are depended upon to do your job you have to have a backup plan so something like that happens, you can call that person and say, ‘hey, my child is sick'. You can either come to my house so my child doesn't contaminate your house or he can come to your house,' said Jackson.

We called local employers and they weren't able to say if more parents have had to leave work to stay home with sick children.

They said they give employees personal leave time and there is no way to track why employees take time off.