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blackjack



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:49 pm    Post subject: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried
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kabrams



Joined: 15 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:04 pm    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


Some students at my school started "showing symptoms" so they had these people come through and spray everything. Now they're canceling school festivals and performances.

Today they handed out some sort of blue spray stuff to the teachers and no one is telling me anything except "Maybe you can't travel far from school" during Thanksgiving or something like that.
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My high school shows an amazing unwillingness to close despite one girl testing positive.

They took the not quite adequate measure of just making her class stay home for one day!!
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OnTheOtherSide



Joined: 29 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:12 pm    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


British?

Swine flu is no big deal. Just let yourself get it and build up the immunity and move on.
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blackjack



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


British?

Swine flu is no big deal. Just let yourself get it and build up the immunity and move on.


kiwi.

I'm not worried about swine flu itself, but the after-school programme is a business. If my co teacher or I catch it and the parents find out I maybe out of a job.

What got me though is she was out of school for a week, however she was sent to school for the afterschool programme.
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OnTheOtherSide



Joined: 29 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:36 pm    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

blackjack wrote:
OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


British?

Swine flu is no big deal. Just let yourself get it and build up the immunity and move on.


kiwi.

I'm not worried about swine flu itself, but the after-school programme is a business. If my co teacher or I catch it and the parents find out I maybe out of a job.

What got me though is she was out of school for a week, however she was sent to school for the afterschool programme.


I'm not a Kiwi. I'm from the land of fat people.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm only seeing good come of this Swine Flu hysteria. They've started a (long overdue) hand-washing campaign at both of my schools, and for once they're actually letting sick people stay home and get some rest instead of having them drag themselves to school/work and sleep at their desks all day. It's almost worth the what, four measly deaths? The regular ol' flu blows through umpteen more people than that.

Long live H1N1!
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ekul



Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone got it last Thursday and my school closed Friday and reopened on Monday. They've been testing the temperature of all the students and so far nothing major has happened. My school has been pretty sane about the whole thing and it doesn't truly seem to be bothering anyone.
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blackjack



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:29 pm    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


British?

Swine flu is no big deal. Just let yourself get it and build up the immunity and move on.


I'm kiwi.


I'm not worried about swine flu itself, but the after-school programme is a business. If my co teacher or I catch it and the parents find out I maybe out of a job.

What got me though is she was out of school for a week, however she was sent to school for the afterschool programme.


I'm not a Kiwi. I'm from the land of fat people.
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think "Un-ModEdit-believable! Shocked " has a better ring.


Consider yourself strongly warned!!!

Koharski


Check (takes out paper and writes that down).


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benji



Joined: 21 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 2:11 am    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


British?

Swine flu is no big deal. Just let yourself get it and build up the immunity and move on.


kiwi.

I'm not worried about swine flu itself, but the after-school programme is a business. If my co teacher or I catch it and the parents find out I maybe out of a job.

What got me though is she was out of school for a week, however she was sent to school for the afterschool programme.


I'm not a Kiwi. I'm from the land of fat people.


Land of fat people? Australia?
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roadwork



Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country

PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Underwaterbob wrote:
I'm only seeing good come of this Swine Flu hysteria. They've started a (long overdue) hand-washing campaign at both of my schools, and for once they're actually letting sick people stay home and get some rest instead of having them drag themselves to school/work and sleep at their desks all day. It's almost worth the what, four measly deaths? The regular ol' flu blows through umpteen more people than that.

Long live H1N1!


Yep. At my school they pulled all the communal drinking cups that were always "sterilized" with that blacklight cup holder.
Also, I'm seeing hands covering coughing mouths and those who don't are scolded by their classmates.
Of course the dirtbag ajosshis are still spitting and pissing everywhere without giving a damn.
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Papa Smurf



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Underwaterbob wrote:
I'm only seeing good come of this Swine Flu hysteria. They've started a (long overdue) hand-washing campaign at both of my schools, and for once they're actually letting sick people stay home and get some rest instead of having them drag themselves to school/work and sleep at their desks all day. It's almost worth the what, four measly deaths? The regular ol' flu blows through umpteen more people than that.

Long live H1N1!


ditto.

liquid soap, kids bringing hand sanitizer and sharing it with the class like candy. awesome.

they're also shoving thermometers in every kids ear without washing it or changing the end, but hey, cant win em all.
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Socks



Joined: 15 May 2008
Location: somewhere in here...

PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Swine flu is one of the BEST things to ever happen to Korea...

It actually taught people to wash their hands...

and cover their mouths when they cough and splutter...

BRING ON MORE Flu's - we might actually teach "them" cleanliness...
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weebil



Joined: 24 May 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:40 am    Post subject: Re: un-bloody-believable Reply with quote

benji wrote:
OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
OnTheOtherSide wrote:
blackjack wrote:
I teach at an after school programme in a public school and I just found out that two weeks ago one of my students was diagnosed with swine flu. And get this she was pulled out of school but she was still sent to the after school programme. Now I have three kids with fevers and god knows whats going to happen. Plus my co-teacher is pregnant and so she is all worried


British?

Swine flu is no big deal. Just let yourself get it and build up the immunity and move on.


kiwi.

I'm not worried about swine flu itself, but the after-school programme is a business. If my co teacher or I catch it and the parents find out I maybe out of a job.

What got me though is she was out of school for a week, however she was sent to school for the afterschool programme.


I'm not a Kiwi. I'm from the land of fat people.


Land of fat people? Australia?


america, obviously.
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