This topic got a nice discussion going in the breakroom today during lunch. Someone mentioned that teaching had made the top of the list for "germy jobs." (like that took a brain scientist to figure out) And it is so totally true. When I was in engineering, I NEVER got sick. Since I've been a teacher, I've become a regular at the local Primacare center. "Oh, hello Mister Teacher, what is it this time? Strep Throat? Sinus Infection? Ebola?"
So I suggested that we might all want to start wearing full-body radiation suits or at least the protective covering of a clean room suit you might see in a chip manufacturing plant. (I refer

We would of course need nice sturdy iron tongs to handle tests and classwork, and anything else that needed to be picked up from the kids each day. A sharps disposal box (labeled "Biohazard") would be provided for each classroom.
Can't you just picture the classroom of the future?
3 comments:
Sick all the time Mr. Teacher?
Welcome to a part of parenthood.
Ah, Mr. Teacher, I feel your pain. This is my first year of retirement from teaching and I haven't had a sniffle. Just discovered your blog and as an old third grade teacher, I'm loving it.
Sure, make me envious, why doncha?
My first year, all I really caught was a cold, but it lasted on and off from Thanksgiving through Spring Break. . .Since then, I've had strep throat twice, lost my voice twice. . .Thankfully no pink eye yet.
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