With about one-fourth of the entire student population absent this past Wednesday, Lamesa school officials announced Thursday they were canceling classes for a couple of days in hopes of allowing students and staff an opportunity to recover from an array of illnesses.Classes were canceled for this past Friday and this coming Tuesday. Students and staff also will be out Monday, as previously scheduled, for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.“Right now we just feel like we have a situation where we could push a reset here before the holiday and give everybody off about five days – maybe we can ...