Uh-oh. Well, perhaps I should get some testing done. Thank you for the info!

I live in the USA, and we don’t have to boil tap water in my city, but after having lived for a spell in a place where tap water is boiled first, I boil mine because I like the way it tastes–it’s sweeter. Maybe boiling it helps get rid of the chlorine taste that city water has? I don’t know. But I do prefer it.

This kind of thing makes me wonder about “workarounds” I’d never otherwise consider, such as just not showing up. “I’m not resigning,” one could insist. “I just can’t make it in today. Or tomorrow. Or for the rest of the year.”

It is too early. I hope you told them to read the dang syllabus.