00:00an elementary school teacher in Indiana built a flexible barrier kind of like
00:11bubble boy style so she could safely give her students hugs hmm here's that
00:18story from WTHR TV if we can it's gonna slowly load we know teachers really miss
00:27seeing their students in person every day and one month the teachers found a way
00:30to show her students how much she cares Carlos is in Muncie and Carlos she's
00:35found a way to hug her students without actually touching them yeah guys I'm here
00:40with Kelsey Povolka who is a second grade teacher here in Muncie and as you can see
00:44she's passing out quarantine hugs safely I'm gonna get one at the end of this
00:48interview but Kelsey what's the inspiration behind this I was missing my
00:52students so much and my wife and I came up with a way for me to give them hugs
00:56during this difficult time um and I got to see so many students and give them
01:00big hugs are these actually ziploc bags yes that's not how to oh my god have the CDC
01:06look at it what's behind this we are watching TikTok one night and we saw another
01:12family who has a similar contraption um and we thought this is perfect this is
01:17exactly what we need uh for some hugs for some students who needed some take me
01:22through uh the construction of this what do we have uh through here so this is a
01:26uh shower curtain tapes all the way around and then it takes 12 ziploc bags to make these and then these are the student holes
01:36student holes and then we've got uh they're always touching students holes
01:41keep everything nice and sanitary in between each student and so the students can actually
01:46step up to this ladder if they need some help correct oh yeah and they all do
01:49circus music I don't know uh uh and then they put their arms through there the bottom part and then they can
01:57hug senora pavolka right here correct yes how many hugs have you got total probably 50 from about 14 of my students
02:06how does it make you feel when you can finally be hugged safely by your students again so many happy
02:11tears i mean i have missed these kids for over a month and i used to seeing them every day getting
02:16my morning hugs every day from them it has just brought so much joy to me parents have told me
02:21it's brought joy to their kids to their families it's giving me anxiety i like it it makes me uncomfortable
02:25my whole skin's crawling so are these hugs i just want to get to the point where he hugs her
02:31students here come on oh here he goes oh careful
02:36put your arms on wow he's nestled into her bosom yeah he is yeah he's like he's like yeah a little
02:43longer that's probably the first chick he's touched in uh quite some time he's very nice
02:50gesture you guys it's a nice they're total freaks dave it's that's a nice i guess but it's just
02:56funny to be like dr fauci dr fauci yes all right can you just make a like a shower curtain and it'll
03:02protect us from no my god no is that how viruses work don't do that i'm a teacher
03:10zip lock technology what do you mean just tape together you can put a sandwich in a goddamn thing
03:18in the last three weeks extra is that gonna help us no no don't don't please heavens no don't do this
03:24don't give anyone a hug oh dr fauci be a buzz kill oh open it up jesus christ she invented it
03:34i know yeah that doesn't even have the nano technologies of dave's glove i know if it was
03:40made of dave's nano technology i might be for it oh boy with my new hugging mitt i don't i guess
03:48that's not gonna make the kids weird right hugging a plastic wall lady like i remember i just remember
03:55i have these i kept memories of hugging the class what what grade did she teach oh second um did it say
04:04i thought i said second but no i just don't remember hugging a lot no really if i had kids
04:11i don't really want you hugging my kids she's a second grade teacher yes it's a no hug zone it's
04:17only for brains i guess this could be my safe grope admit too oh wow yeah yeah i grew up in it
04:23it keeps them safe and you safe absolutely when you violate them um optis
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