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Byline: Andrea Falkenhagen
Dec. 13--As hungry first-graders lined up for lunch at Tarwater Elementary School, Camryn Carillo, 6, squirted globs of hand sanitizer into their palms.
It wasn't the first time the children at the Chandler school had sanitized their hands Tuesday. Earlier, before making edible marshmallow snowmen, teacher Wendi Lyle had also doled out some of the gel from an economy-sized bottle near her door.
"I gave them each their own stick to spread (the frosting) and told them not to lick," she said, before distributing baby wipes for hand washing.
In the annual fight against cold and flu germs, hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes have become almost as common in East Valley classrooms as pencils and paper.
Teachers, after all, are desperate to control the spread of germs in their…
Source: HighBeam Research, Kids in the come classroom clean: Hand sanitizers, wet wipes become...