To preface, I was sort of prepared for the worst. My time as a TA and a Student Teacher and a Substitute had me kind of expecting a pack of barely-contained hellions. Really, though, they were all very quiet and very polite. It's a small class, a bit smaller than I'm used to, really, but what else can you expect from these tiny country schools?
Anyway, getting off track.
I introduced myself to the students and told them that, as a class project, we'd be tracking the spread of cooties through the students. I was about to mention the "Cootie Monster" when one of the students, a girl named Ashley, raised her hand.
She told me that there was one person in the class with cooties. She said that Katrina had cooties.
That's when I noticed the girl in question. She's a perfectly normal girl, as far as I can tell, butt she was sitting in the corner, away from the other children. When I saw away from the other children, I mean, there was a deliberate barrier of two empty seats on all sides of her, keeping her literally as separate from the others as possible.
When I looked up at her, she smiled up at me, as if there was nothing in the world wrong.
I asked her where she caught her cooties, and she said that the Cootie Monster had given them to her.
Huh. Well, at least it's convenient. It's a little troubling, though, that they've isolated the poor girl. I'd be a bit more worried, though, if Katrina showed any signs of being distressed.
At any rate, nothing really to be done but keep a close eye on it, and hope nothing more troubling occurs.
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