So much for that

Teachers were standing in line to get the Swine Flu shot, but when they got to the front of the line, they were turned away. They were afraid of running out. So after all the memos and emails and letters home and permission slips returned, they didn’t know how many people were going to show up???

Two ideas:

1. Add 15,000 students + 500 teachers + how ever many staff = how many shots to bring.

OR

2. Only give it to people who returned the paper. Let that be the natural, logical consequence for not following directions, or not cleaning out your kid’s backpack, or not looking in the “Keep at Home” side of my weekly grading folder.

Needless to say, I did not even attempt to go over. I called my doctor and got my name on his list instead.

Addendum: 7:15 p.m.
Scratch that. I left the book fair when I heard from a parent that there was no wait. Then when I asked a teacher to switch reading times with me, she said another teacher got it because she mentioned she has asthma. My allergist said I have it “a little bit” (really?), so I went with that. When I got there, the first guy tried to turn me away, even after mentioning allergies and asthma. I said, “Wait a minute, a teacher from my school was just here and she got it! She has asthma, and I do, too!” Thank goodness I knew that, because he went to go find someone in charge. That guy tried to tell me no, too, til I said the same thing about the other teacher, and after the third mention of “asthma”, he said, “Oh! You’re asthmatic! Then you’re high risk. Go right over there.” Geez, Louise!

Five minutes later I was outta there. And my paranoid self thought the whole thing looked like a scene right out of The X-Files…