Ridiculis...

I am typically a high energy person but able to relax most of the time. Right now I am not relaxed at all. I have an 11th grader in the local high school. He has been given his own bottle of hand sanitizer now for a couple of years. He washes his hands after using the bathroom and before eating as he has always done since he was in pre-school. Now he is coming home daily from school aggravated by the kids at his school who are obviously sick and coughing without covering their mouths. He sees them in the lunch line, coughing, sneezing and wiping their noses with their hands, then passing up the bottle of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer without using it. Do the teachers even notice?? How are we supposed to stay well if there are kids out there who are clueless to basic personal hygiene?? It is not only the parents that need to teach their kids from an early age how to stay clean, but is also the school that needs to enforce it as well. When they see a kid coughing without covering their mouths and not washing hands or using sanitizer they need to talk to them about it. Shouldn't kids be sent home if it is obvious that they are ill? No wonder there are so many sick people! If you are feeling like I am please let me know. If you have any ideas on how to approach the schools about this please tell me. One more thing. The bathrooms at my sons high school are the type that you have to hold the water on to use it. So- you wash one hand and then you use that clean hand to hold the dirty faucet to wash the other hand! Does that make any sense at all?? He says half the time there isn't even soap in the bathroom. All I hear is how the budget has been cut. So am I to understand that money is more important than a child's safety? Sorry for the ranting my friends, but I am fed up. Any comments are welcome, please be constructive but feel free to rant all you want. Blessings to you all.