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Students TRYING to get conjunctivitis?!!!

 
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:15 pm    Post subject: Students TRYING to get conjunctivitis?!!! Reply with quote

Well it's broken out again at my school, and a bunch of middle school students have been TRYING to get it by rubbing their infected friends' eyes and then their own. They really hate school that much that they're so desperate to get out of their lessons. I actually say a girl doing it yesterday after class. The teachers have resorted to quarantining all of the infected students in the science lab today.

On the upside, yesterday pretty well all the trouble-makers were absent from class, leaving me with very pleasant and manageable classes of about 25 students.
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drunkenfud



Joined: 08 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They're doing this at my middle school too.

I've got the GEPIK orientation next week, and I'm semi-seriously considering following their example to get out of it.
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ED209



Joined: 17 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stick some food dye in your eye, take a week off, don't forget to wash out food dye or you may get conjunctivitis.
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Snowkr



Joined: 03 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unbelievable.

The same outbreak has occured at my high school but I'm not sure if they've tried to give it to one another or not. It wouldn't really surprise me if they were though..

During my first week of teaching here, I saw a teacher walking nearly 30 students down the hill away from our school and toward the clinic. My co-teacher told me they all claimed to have an "eye disease"
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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den

PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

only way these kids get any time of off. even a slight cold doesnt get them a break

shame on their mothers for forcing this on them
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Snowkr



Joined: 03 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If any of these "infected" students put their fingers anywhere near me, they will be drowned in disinfectant.
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Boodleheimer



Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man

PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm just hoping my school closes. not that it will happen, but it would be nice.

i suppose if i really wanted to miss class, i'd try to get pink eye from the students, but that's just gross.
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Snowkr



Joined: 03 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you think?
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Boodleheimer



Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just a little.
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richardlang



Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A whole class of my school has it, too. It just happened two days ago. Initially, I thought a girl was crying because she had gotten smacked/hit by a teacher. Seriously, that was my first reaction. Around here it's not an unreasonable thing to think. But it's an eye infection that's going around.
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genezorm



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo

PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah it is everywhere in my school....i is trying to get it so i can get a week off
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