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The way recovering from sickness at school should be
We all have head a teacher say that the (fill in the blank of the siccness) is going around, make sure you get plenty of rest or stay healthy to avoid what’s going around now. That is what is said beforehand, during your illness, it is the typical responses of hope you feel better or get well soon. The recovery stage on the other hand is………….(blank). This is the truth for when you need the extra support to return to life, most of the sympathy and support you had earlier is gone. When recovering, you are not fully better the day you get back to class; sure your fever is gone but you still have the lingering headache or sinus problems. In addition, the hidden burden of getting sick during school is the enormous backlog of homework that stacks up while absent with the never relenting amount of work each day. Let me use my brother, who had the flu all of last week (3/3 -3/9), as an example of this. Over that week he amassed 5 homework pages and a test for honors chem, a public speaking project for honors english, about 20% of the lectures for WWII in history, math homework, and any elective work he missed. In my opinion, this is a mindbogoling amount of work to do by itself and it gets even worse when you add the homework that keeps piling in. Furthermore, on top of doing all of that work, my brother also has a lingering sinus infection, making these few days back even more of a hell on earth. This is the problem with recovering from sickness at school. The main problem is, not enough time is given for a student to gradually get back into the rhythm of life and to move on. Going back without help is like tying a rope to your ankle and having a horse (horse being daily routine/life) drag you vs having help allowing you to have a helping hand getting on the horse and moving on.

P.S. (as of the night of 3/13) - when I wrote this I had a fever and was home sick. In addition my head was a little hazy when this was written and as a result my work might not be the best. As for any sparkle or links i was going to add to this project i say: screw that! I’m happy getting what i did done while being sick.