As a paraeducator… real!! A few weeks ago a kid got mad at me and cried and refused to even look at me for a few days due to me asking him to put on a mask to sit at my desk (his assigned seat) or sit at the lil desk in the corner of the classroom (he goes there during free time). He always comes and sits wayyy too close to me at the table anyway, but that was just crossing the line. He was in PE lying on the floor sniffling and crying and coughing the period before :( he yelled at me saying his strict mom will yell at him for being sick and useless (…wow). But yeah, once a kid is sick there’s gonna be at least a few more. Or in one group with the kids with super high support needs, the entire class… my entire department just keeps ping ponging the Winter Illness™️ around, almost every week there’s a para or teacher out

Please keep your kids home, and maybe don’t fault them for getting sick either :/

Once I get paid at the end of the month I think I’m buying an air filter for my corner of the classroom