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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm a lot like you but older. How long have you worked in an elementary school, and are you working as a teacher or someone with contact with kids?  If so, do you recall your first five years of teaching?

Many elementary school and preschool teachers report getting sick a lot those first few years. There are a certain number of very common viruses out there.  My numbers are completely hypothetical but say it's 150. As a child of course you got exposed to the normal amount that kids get, say 5 a year until they are 10 years old = 50.  Then you won't get those anymore because you have already been exposed to them and your body reacts quickly to kill the infection, right?

So as a teen/college/adult you now maybe just get 1 or 2 a year whenever it happens to come into contact with you. Gradually building up exposure to the remaining 100.

Well, all that changes if you work with kids. They bring stuff to school, lots of different cold germs, and you will get them too. So new teachers might also get ill 10 times a year for a while. They just are exposed to a lot more, all at once.

After a while, though, it's like there's nothing those kids can throw at you that your body hasn't seen before.  So it's not that you have some super immunity, you just have already been through it so your body recognizes it.

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