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Kids in School; Home May Be Wher the Heart Is, But Body and Mind Go to School-the Newest Front in Germ Warfare

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871006
Author:Wendy Melillo

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." So wrote Henry Brooks Adams in "The Education of Henry Adams" (1907). But how can today's teachers be effective in the classroom if the children are sick?

No longer are scarlet fever, tuberculosis and polio the major killers of young people that they were in the past century. Yet health concerns facing parents and their children have never been more pressing. AIDS, the most significant epidemic since polio, is the most frightening, but it's not the only threat to the nation's youth. In parts of the country, doctors ...

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