I have been reading about schools closing to disinfect and am wondering if this is the best way to spend money to combat MRSA. The bacterium are everywhere and easily carried by people and pets. All it takes to spread MRSA is for a positive person to touch their nose and then touch any surface and then someone else touch that spot and the infected person might not be and never et sick themselves with the disease. It seems money and time would be better spent to take more time to teach children to properly wash their hands, which is to wash them in warm soapy water for the length of time it takes to sing Happy Birthday, and also to install disinfecting lotion dispensers in the halls. I wrote an article earlier about a teacher’s aid who told me the school she teaches at rushes the kindergarteners through bathroom breaks often neglecting proper hand washing to save time. Changes in policies like these would be more effective and less intrusive and expensive than closing schools for ineffective sterilization, which seems rather like sensationalism.