You had a school nurse? We had a school secretary who let us sit in her office until Mom picked us up (if we were REALLY sick). Otherwise the teacher put merthiolate and maybe a bandaid on our scratch and sent us back to our desk. And we played baseball without gloves or helmets, and we took our shoes off to play soccer with a basket ball - we didn't know there were real soccer balls. Wasn't it fun? :-D