johnnychips
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This is a polite euphemism for vomiting. I am 60 years old and seem to remember quite a few, maybe six times a year, days of my primary school years being off with this ailment, which was cured by a day in bed vomiting until I could face dry toast and an Oxo cube in water. At the same time, kids always seemed to be vomiting at primary school, which was resolved by Mr Peart the caretaker arriving with a bucket of sawdust and the kid being placed in a cupboard with a bucket until they could be picked up.
I taught in a secondary school for thirty odd years and I can remember the number of kids vomitIng on the floor on the fingers of both hands, and I shared a room with ‘matron’ for a few years and it hardly happened. Now obviously this was a secondary school, but I just wonder if and why it seems less prevalent. Obviously views from parents who have or had primary school kids would be very interesting.
I taught in a secondary school for thirty odd years and I can remember the number of kids vomitIng on the floor on the fingers of both hands, and I shared a room with ‘matron’ for a few years and it hardly happened. Now obviously this was a secondary school, but I just wonder if and why it seems less prevalent. Obviously views from parents who have or had primary school kids would be very interesting.
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