# Surge among kids when they go back to school **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 26, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surge-among-kids-when-they-go-back-to-school/947339 "2021-07-26T15:45:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chatterbox1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Chatterbox1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chatterbox1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surge-among-kids-when-they-go-back-to-school/947339/42 "2021-07-29T03:12:00Z")
All the teachers of younger kids I know get sick a lot too, which is a fair number actually ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surge-among-kids-when-they-go-back-to-school/947339/43 "2021-07-29T11:59:12Z")
Among teachers, the folk wisdom is that you get sick a lot the first couple years, and then you adapt. If you move to a new school, you may have to go through the process again, as you work your way through the local germ pool. That’s pure anecdote, but very widely believed. I also want to point out that it’s not just because kids have poor hygiene, it’s because 30 people in a room isn’t the norm for many places that aren’t schools. Even if they didn’t share lollipops and smear boogers on each other, they’d still spend a lot more time within a couple feet of a lot more people. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surge-among-kids-when-they-go-back-to-school/947339/44 "2021-07-29T15:20:15Z")
And kindergartners smear more lollipops and boogers on each other, so they (typically) spread more diseases than high schoolers, even though both are usually crammed in 30 to a room. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surge-among-kids-when-they-go-back-to-school/947339/45 "2021-07-29T17:33:06Z")
I’m personally a little nervous about kids going back because New Hampshire didn’t force schools to give up their online options until 7 weeks before the school year ended, so we didn’t have much time to see if kids were getting and/or spreading covid. Our vaccination numbers for 12+ are good, and my fingers are crossed that we won’t hear of big outbreaks amongst the little kids before they’re able to be vaccinated too [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surge-among-kids-when-they-go-back-to-school/947339.md?page=2)