I have children in three different schools. I am forever amazed at the number of substitute teachers they have in a week. In fact, my son had one today for science. While I am one who now works from home, I must say that whenever I had to report to work, I was there. I think it goes back to that Catholic school thing that someone else mentioned on another board...the nurse didn't consider us sick unless we had a high fever or were on our death beds. From that we learned that we had to take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.