The H1N1 swine flu scare might not be over yet, but widespread school shutdowns are.

Four Utah schools that closed earlier this week, because of suspected cases of the new flu, plan to reopen Wednesday, including Park City High, Redwood Elementary, Judge Memorial Catholic High School and Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary. The rest of the Park City School District schools and the private Park City Academy will reopen Thursday. Soaring Wings Montessori School and The Colby School will stay closed until Monday.

School and local health officials decided to reopen the schools after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended Tuesday that schools with a suspected or confirmed case of the new flu stay open. CDC officials recommended late last week that affected schools close for up to two weeks, but changed course Tuesday because “most U.S. cases have not been severe and are comparable in severity to seasonal influenza,” according to the CDC Web site.

Though schools may reopen, local health and school officials are still urging sick students and faculty members to stay home.

“Regardless of whether it's a flu or a cough, they need to stay home, especially now,” said Heather Nicholas, principal at Redwood Elementary. Redwood Elementary was closed for only one day, Tuesday, after a student there came down with a probable case and 10 other students and six staff members called in sick with flulike symptoms.

Nicholas said custodians spent Tuesday cleaning and disinfecting the school.

Redwood children in neighborhoods near the school spent Tuesday running in their yards, riding bicycles and playing video games. Some residents, including Connie Demler, said they were in favor of the school reopening Wednesday. Demler spent Tuesday watching her seven grandchildren, all Redwood students, so their parents could go to work.

“I think it's an overreaction,” Demler said of the school closing. “The flu goes around every year ... I don't know why they're making such a big deal.”

Parent Jodi Littleford said she was OK with sending her kids back to school on Wednesday. She said she's talked with her fifth-grader and sixth-grader about washing their hands and isn't too worried.

Others, however, said they'll likely keep their children out of school even after classes resume. LaVon Giles said her 7-year-old granddaughter has a heart condition, and she doesn't want to risk the girl catching an illness. She said she won't send her back to school Wednesday.

Dennis Hovet said he might also keep his kids out of school for another day or two to see whether the illness spreads further. Hovet and his wife pulled their two children out of Redwood last week -- days before the school officially closed -- to keep them away from the flu. Their great-grandmother has been watching the boy and girl while their parents work.

“A lot of my daughter's friends have family that go back and forth from Mexico all the time,” Hovet said as his children played in the family's yard Tuesday. “We don't know what to think.”

Parent Jennifer Roeling said she's not sure whether she'll send her 9-year-old daughter back to the school Wednesday even if it means losing more pay at work. Roeling said her daughter could probably fight off the illness if she got sick, but she worries about it spreading to her 6-month-old child. She said the family's usual baby sitter has canceled for the week because she's afraid of catching and spreading the flu to her own family members, some of whom don't have medical insurance.

Ben Horsley, Granite School District spokesman, said Redwood will be lenient over the next few days when it comes to absences in case some parents didn't hear about the reopening.

Horsley said the district is recommending students return to school Wednesday if they're not ill.

“There's no reason to believe it's not a safe and healthy environment at this point in time,” Horsley said. “Kids who are healthy should have no worries about coming to school and participating fully.”

As of Tuesday, Utah still had only one confirmed case of the new virus, a Park City schools student. Park City Superintendent Ray Timothy said the six new probable cases in Summit County are all students. Park City schools have been closed since Thursday, after three elementary and middle school students were diagnosed with probable flu cases, one of which turned out to be the state's confirmed case.

Attempts to reach The Winter Sports School in Park City about whether it will remain closed or open were unsuccessful Tuesday. A message written on the school's Web site Sunday said the school would remain closed until Monday.