[pct-l] Handshakes

[Robert E. Riess]

We all know that classrooms are cesspools of viruses and bacteria.  For the 
past 14 years I have been a classroom teacher in a public high school.  A 
couple of rules I follow fastidiously are first, I do not touch students, 
and second, whenever I touch their papers I wash my hands, 10x/day if 
necessary.  There were always 2 half-gallon bottles of hand sanitizer in my 
classroom for my use the the use of my students.  I keep my hands away from 
my nose and mouth.  I did not allow gum chewing in my classroom because the 
cold virus can live for a month in a moist gob of gum stuck to the underside 
of a desk.  I retired last year, having never missed an hour or a day of 
school for being sick.  Surgery is not being sick.  In fact and in truth, 
the last time I missed time from work or school for being sick was in 1965. 
Good luck to the Class of 2012.  Bob Riess, San Diego.

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