I’m a retired fifth grade teacher, and I never caught anything from my students. When the flu was raging in the fall of 2009, there would be 13 or 14 students from a class out at the same time, and I didn’t even get sick then. I didn’t try to keep away from them either. We just carried on as normal. Students threw up in class, sneezed, coughed, and even bled on things, and I never even caught a stomach virus. When I had grandkids, however, they very kindly shared their stomach viruses with me.

Honestly, the only things I was worried getting from students were lice and later, bed bugs.

If you are worried about germs you shouldn’t be a teacher.