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At school, did you ever have lots of kids in your class sent home because of an illness?
I was just remembering something that happened in my last year at primary school.
It was a Monday, and I think it was halfway through the school day when this happened. Lots of kids suddenly started feeling ill and had to leave the classroom. I don't know exactly what was wrong with them, because this was about ten years ago now and it's a little vague, but I think they must have been feeling sick and had stomach aches because they were hunched over clutching their stomachs. About half the class got ill and had to be sent home, and I'm not exaggerating. This really happened. I remember leaving the classroom for lunch and out in the hallway about half the class were sitting on chairs looking ill. When I came back to class after lunch, the classroom was half empty. It was so surreal, and we had my favourite class, Art, so it was a weird but at the same time great day. The following day, everyone was back (at least from what I remember).
I just wanted to share what happened because it's something that sticks out in my memory. Nothing like that ever happened again in all my school years. It was a weird day. I write stories and I want to write something about this in one of my stories. Did you ever experience something similar when you were at school?
7 Answers
- Anonymous3 years agoFavorite Answer
I attended a boarding school. In my senior year, the entire school closed a week early before spring break, because so many students were bedridden with colds and the flu. The infirmary was overrun.
What you're describing has happened at more than one school and has usually not been traceable to an actual cause. It seems to have involved the power of suggestion: one student feels sick, maybe complains of smelling something weird, and other students suddenly feel sick, too. Everyone gets sent home, the school is minutely investigated and scoured, but no one ever comes up with an explanation.
- 3 years ago
Lots of kids were set home cuz of their terrible attitudes LOOL
This one kid came to school and was like “that’s it I’m pissing on these kids I’m done with the bullying @
He kind succeeded
But he pulled out his dick
And started insulting the teachers appearance and said some true things that must’ve hurt
- Anonymous3 years ago
I have heard stories like this before, where almost always, the sickness is due to food poisoning. Usually, the day after, it becomes known that a refrigerator unit stopped working at some time, and nobody noticed it at all.
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- LindaLv 73 years ago
Yes, Someone had a birthday and sent a lovely cake to our classroom with paper plates and forks. About an hour later we were all getting sick. They thought it was because of all the food coloring in the icing. Could have been a virus but we were all gone quickly.
- Mr. SmartypantsLv 73 years ago
When I was in elementary school, back in the 1950s, we had a flu epidemic every year. Some years the epidemic was much worse than usual and we might have 10 or 20 kids out in my class. It did seem kind of strange.
People took the flu very seriously because it had been only about 30 years since a really bad flu epidemic killed millions of people in the US and Canada. But in those days there were several childhood diseases that could kill a kid or disable him for life. TB was still around. Polio was fairly common. Kids died from things like mumps or German measles (which also caused terrible birth defects). People today don't realize what a huge advance vaccinations were and how much trouble they prevent.
