Am I the only one who is totally freaking out about this whole swine flu thing?
Because I am. Totally Freaking Out.
It's made its way into my school, and I am not at all okay with it.
The other day, one of my 6th graders walked into the classroom, and I only had to look at him to see that he was SICK. I was terribly distracted by this fact. I kept asking him if he was OK. He kept saying he was fine. Except, he really wasn't. That much was obvious.
Finally, I told him he had to go to the office. He said he had already been there. I asked him if they had let him call home. He said he had called home, but his dad told him to stay at school.
I was appalled, and I'm sure I didn't mask it very well. I told him to go again and to tell his dad his teacher said he needed to go home.
Apparently, when he went to the office the second time, his temperature was 102.5.
Like I said... sick.
Kids are dropping like flies, and I am enforcing hand washing, hand sanitizing, and desk sanitizing like a wild woman.
My only hope is that due to my overexposure to all these germs, I might be more resistant to them than your average joe. Because, we're in for a long flu season, folks, and I can tell you right now that I do not want to be the flu's next victim.
1 comment:
This is absolutely ridiculous. Your school needs to send home a memo TODAY with a zero tolerarnce policy. It should be that no one (teachers included) comes to school with a fever OR for 48 hours after a fever ends (without the use of tylenol, etc.) It should be made clear that anyone who violates policy will be sent home IMMEDIATELY. No letting that dad make the decision. The office should have called and said, "Come pick up your sick kid." They are endangering everyone. People are dying from this and healthy kids and young women are two very high risk groups for going from healthy to dead.
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