Over the last week, Flat River Academy has closed 3 TIMES due to illness. These are some of the questions most frequently asked: Q. Why did you close for illness? A. There are a couple of reasons that we felt the need to close, but these were the most pressing issues: 1) Student absences - the number of students and staff that were sick amounted to over 25% of our school. With so many missing students, instruction was impaired. Teachers didn't want to cover too much materi