Sickness Causes East Texas School District to Close

ELYSIAN FIELDS — Elysian Fields ISD dismissed classes on Friday due to an outbreak of sickness. According to a Facebook post, the intended goal is for maintenance workers to sanitize all classrooms, campuses and buses district wide. The district had already arranged to be out on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. day. The district plans to be back on track on Tuesday. The social media post, did not go into detail as to how many students had missed due to sicknesses.