Teaching is fabulous...except for the sickness it brings upon all of us faculty.Sooooo many teachers have been going home sick for the last several days, struggling with high fevers.
I even covered the class of a teacher who went home early, visibly looking green.
Yesterday, about 150 kids were absent from our school (that's one entire team!), and many have been absent for several days.
Everyone's congested, looking pale, and freezing.
When you shuffle students' soiled papers and regularly sign the wrinkled hall passes they pull out from their jeans pockets, it's no wonder that the germs are spreading faster than I can wash my hands.
Every year, we teachers have to acclimate our immune systems to the germs of about 450 new humans in our 1,000-person building. The only way to do this, of course, is to build up resistance. And the only way to build up resistance is to develop antibodies, whether authentically (getting sick yourself) or artificially (such as with the flu vaccine).
As a result, I'm feeling sick...and getting worse with every passing moment. Ugh. Good night, world. I'm going to bed early!
