CLEVELAND -- Two local high schools each have a student with a reported case of H1N1, also known as swine flu. Each school is dealing with the situation "by the book."

St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland and the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center in Brecksville each have a student with the symptoms of H1N1 who has missed this entire week of classes.

"We have provided information to our students. We have made info available on our website for parents to be informed about the proper approach," says CCVC Superintendent Roscoe Schlachter, who puts the number of students at 1,000 in the high school and 3,000 in the adult programs.

Schlachter says the CCVC is following guidelines from the Ohio Department of Health, reminding students to wash their hands, cover their coughs and sneezes, and stay home from school if they have flu-like symptoms.

At St. Ignatius, Principal Peter Corrigan, Jr. says there is no panic like the fear that gripped some schools last spring during a suspected outbreak of swine flu and caused some schools to close for a week or more.

"We seem to be approaching it as a society with a little bit more reasonableness," Corrigan told WKYC. He said the freshman has missed the entire week but can return when his symptoms disappear for at least 24 hours.

The school has informed parents, advised students who have flu-like symptoms to stay home, put out bottles of hand sanitizer throughout the buildings on the St. Ignatius campus, and overstocked paper towels and soap in restrooms.

"Because of the outbreak of this, we've also taken some extraordinary measures of wiping down, having the teachers wipe down the surface areas of the classroom on a regular period-by-period basis," Corrigan added.

He says the school is approaching the H1N1 case by following health department guidelines, and will not force every student with flu-like symptoms to be tested for H1N1.

"Even the health department seems to have backed off a little bit. They're not requiring to test for H-1-N-1 with every case, just if there's severe respiratory symptoms," he said.

Corrigan says the school has set up a distance-learning program so students can keep up on classwork as well as possible while they are home sick. He hopes to encourage students who have the flu to stay home and not worry about missing work.

"We'll work with them to keep them current with their studies," Corrigan says.