School district officials, however, have dismissed it as a bid to whip up hysteria. FMTNews Coronavirus
The online petition to shut down schools has garnered nearly 14,000 signatures.
The online petition posted on Change.org urges the Alhambra Unified School District located east of Los Angeles and with a heavily Asian population, to basically shut down until the outbreak is over. School district officials, however, have dismissed the petition as a bid to whip up hysteria over the deadly outbreak that has killed hundreds in China.
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