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I can relate...
By sue d.
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My fourth year teaching (this is now my eighth!), I had a couple of kids who were well known hypochondriacs (sp?). I'd like to think of myself as super-structured, and had never had kids take advantage before. I told all| of the kids at a class meeting that the most the nurse could do for them would be to take their temperature, but that I could feel their foreheads too. I explained that if their arm or whatever had been hurt, they could have one of my ice-packs I keep in the teacher's' lounge. Other than that, when they're sick, I expected them to stay home. Carefully, I pointed out what constituted | |
an emergency nurse visit-- really acted it out--- and that seemed to do the trick. For kids who say that they have to throw up, I grab a trash can and have a kid escort them to the bathroom. I never doubt those kids, as I am a chain reaction vomiter.
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