Does it always get nuttier at Christmas?

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Every year when the Christmas season comes, it gets CRAZY at school. Why is that? Does everyone have their mind on something else so they get hurt more easily? Parents get distracted so they're not paying attention to their kids? What is it??

I'm doing tons of lice checks all day, every day and finding bad cases of it since we got back from Thanksgiving. A teacher just randomly fell down the stairs yesterday and did some serious damage to her leg...we had to call paramedics. Her sons go to this school and her youngest (4th grade) went into some serious anxiety mid-day while we waited to hear from her. My OI kid broke his 36th bone yesterday morning (his 4th or 5th this semester). My 6th grader whose seizures had really calmed down over the past two years fired up a grand mal last week and is in tears every day now worried she'll have another one at school in front of her classmates. A 3rd grader got a serious concussion on the playground last Friday.

I'm thinking I'll go back to med-surg to get some rest.

This will hopefully all calm down after Christmas and we'll just hit steady flu season come January. Oh, boy.

As I'm typing this a Kindergarten class is standing outside the front office singing the 12 days of Christmas. Of course they are really cute but the best entertainment is watching the staff listening to them sing. At first there was obvious entertainment and enjoyment, engaging the little darlings in their performance. About mid-way through you can see the enjoyment on staff faces starting to be strained. By the time they got to the 12 day staff faces were like smiles, taped in place, with a caption over their head, JESUS is this ever going to end??!!

Hahahaha!! 100% accurate!

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As I'm typing this a Kindergarten class is standing outside the front office singing the 12 days of Christmas. Of course they are really cute but the best entertainment is watching the staff listening to them sing. At first there was obvious entertainment and enjoyment, engaging the little darlings in their performance. About mid-way through you can see the enjoyment on staff faces starting to be strained. By the time they got to the 12 day staff faces were like smiles, taped in place, with a caption over their head, JESUS is this ever going to end??!!

Huh.

In my school we currently have a sexting scandal going on. 7th graders.

I would love to hear The Twelve Days of Christmas!

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I get the most injuries in gym from dodge ball and ultimate Frisbee.

I just had the pleasure of visiting the gym and being dragged into four corner dodge ball with 5th graders, those boys throw hard! I need an ice pack my self now! Those kids loved it when I joined their game.

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I get the most injuries in gym from dodge ball and ultimate Frisbee.

Here I get the most from Capture the Flag. I hate that game now!

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Huh.

In my school we currently have a sexting scandal going on. 7th graders.

I would love to hear The Twelve Days of Christmas!

Oh boy! Thankfully no sexting scandal here in Elementary school!

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Methinks the School Nurses are getting a little nutty here as well! (Lice Thread, I'm looking at you!)

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Methinks the School Nurses are getting a little nutty here as well! (Lice Thread, I'm looking at you!)

Yep! Love it!

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
I do advise parents to check heads regularly but do they listen?? Apparently not because I'm finding kids with lice infestations in all stages. My first graders are in bad shape!

If I have a first grader with red bites all over their neck and scratching their scalp like they're going crazy, I'm sorry, but I'm checking their poor little head!

Sounds like Norwegian Scabies - so much worse than the American kind - I propose we ban all scabies from Norway from entering the US.

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I just had the pleasure of visiting the gym and being dragged into four corner dodge ball with 5th graders, those boys throw hard! I need an ice pack my self now! Those kids loved it when I joined their game.

Stop that! If "The Nurse" gets hurt where are the smiling Hall Monitors going to send your kids?

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Sounds like Norwegian Scabies - so much worse than the American kind - I propose we ban all scabies from Norway from entering the US.

Yo, lighten up, Trump.

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Stop that! If "The Nurse" gets hurt where are the smiling Hall Monitors going to send your kids?

I took Ibuprofen I'll live! And it was kind of fun! Maybe I'll surprise the little ones on the slide outside later today, hmmm

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Sounds like Norwegian Scabies - so much worse than the American kind - I propose we ban all scabies from Norway from entering the US.

Yo, lighten up, Trump.

Hey, now! Banning might be a little extreme. Maybe just have a database where all the scabies have to register? #greatergood

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