germs, pandemic, preschool?

language alert.  I will be using foul language in this post, if you can't stomach it...you've been warned.

Ok, I work in a preschool.  Mike Rowe should come and spend the day because it IS the world's dirtiest job.  I thought flying spit, snot, and wiping butts was bad enough, until the day that my whole class revealed that at recess they put worms in their pockets and had been sitting criss cross applesauce for 20 minutes (that's "indian style" to all you non-pc types).  It was basically worm sludge at that point.

Now, preschool ended last week.  However this week, we are closing down our classrooms because those "damn kids from vacation bible school and boy scouts" use our rooms.  My director basically wants our stuff behind Fort Knox like defenses, with booby traps and false openings.  But, I digress.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you all know about the hoo ha of swine flu.  Now, we basically just bathe ourselves in purell every day, and shove tissues at the kids constantly, but not until AFTER the kids have left for the summer, does said director come up with this brilliant thought.  BEGINNING TOMORROW WE WILL BE DISINFECTING EVERY ITEM THAT THE KIDS TOUCHED THIS YEAR. Which to me, would have been a sensible precaution to do, oh, every FRIDAY, not at the END OF THE FREAKING YEAR!  Lysol the suckers down at least.  But no, NOW it's rubber gloves and bleach and "simple green" (FULL STRENGTH, oh the horror!) and since it's pouring this week here, towels in the classroom to dry off each peg, puzzle peice, lego block, plastic horse. etc.  And, just to make sure we're doing it correctly, we have to do it IN FRONT OF CRAZY DIRECTOR who basically is just supervising and criticizing at this point.  NOT HELPING, nooooo, just watching and commenting (ooh, there's a smudge there, and ooh I see crayon on the bottom of that, etc.)

So, two or three more days of this and then...sweet freedom, I'm outta there.  I might need to be exorcised after this week.

Hey, there was hardly any language at all in this post!