Hygienic diversity in the classroom

Diversity is all the rage these days. Racial diversity, gender diversity, even neuro-diversity is a thing now, and nowhere more than in the classroom. But one thing nobody talks about is hygeine diversity. The hygienically diverse are still in the closet, so to speak. Teacher training renders them invisible. It's time to end the oppression of the hygiene diverse. Based on 25 years of personal observation, most classrooms enjoy a rich diversity of hygiene habits. You've got your middle class normies, the kids who shower every day and whose mom's do their laundry. Then you've got kids whose parents have neither a laundry room nor laundromat money, or kids with no parents. A subset of that cohort may be lacking indoor plumbing, and some will have no home at all. Throw thirty kids in a room together, and the air can get pretty thick really fast. I recall a student who was both hygiene and neuro diverse. By grade ten he still hadn't figured out how to clean up after a crap, but there were psychological reasons. A psych team was working with him with hopes they'd have him up to sniff in time for graduation. Unfortunately he dropped out of school before his team tasted success. Then there was the time a kid dropped what must have been way more than a fart. He was known for it. He used farts constantly to harrass his classmates. I'd stepped out of the classroom for a moment, and as I was making my way back, I was shocked to see several of my students running in the opposite direction. His favoured tool of aggression must have got away from him. The point is, it's high time society got over its elitist hangups about what stinks and what doesn't. The Big Tent of progressive humanity must make room for the hygienically diverse.