LOS ANGELES : School Hopes to Reschedule Visit by Navajo Students
The principal of a private school said Wednesday that she wants to reschedule a trip by Navajo schoolchildren to Los Angeles and help raise money for their travel expenses.
Twenty-seven students from the Chinle Primary School on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona flew back to Phoenix on Tuesday after their scheduled meeting with pen pals from the Heschel Day School in Northridge was canceled because of fears that a mysterious respiratory ailment that has broken out on the reservation may be contagious.
The illness, which shuts down the lungs, has killed 13 people, most of them with ties to the reservation in northwest New Mexico and northeast Arizona.
Jane Ulman, parent of a third-grader at Heschel and a volunteer for the exchange program, said Wednesday that when the outbreak is over, the school wants the Chinle third-graders to return and added that the pen pal program will continue.
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