Hand sanitizers vs Washing with soap and water

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My nieces teacher is allowing her students to use germx hand sanitizer instead of washing there hands with soap and water. She is telling the students its special soap. Here is my problem with that. Germx is not all its cracked up to be and there are alot of germs and bacteria that hand sanitizers don't kill. A hospital near where i live had to quarantine a whole wing of the hospital due to an out break of staph caused by doctors not washing there hands and using hand sanitizer. When checking on patients they would just use the hand sanitizer and ended up spreading staph to all the patients in the wing. Hand sanitizer is good in an emergency but is not equal to washing your hands with hot water and soap. I thought my niece was kidding when she told me but when i went to the school with her the teacher told me yeah she does that because the kids make a huge mess with the soap and water. To me thats not right, she should be teaching the kids to wash there hands. But what can i do, i am just an aunt to one of her students? So would you use hand sanitizer instead of washing your hands?? Do you think that practice is okay??