No days off for stricken teach

Public-school teacher Rabeena Khan was so sick with the coronavirus, she couldn’t even “get out of bed” — but even as she battled the vicious bug, she never missed one day of work.

“For any kid, whether they are your neurotypical kid or a student with disabilities, they thrive on structure, they thrive on consistency,” Khan, a seventh-grade English-language-arts teacher at the Queens School of Inquiry in Flushing, told The Post.

As many of her students dealt with the horrors of the virus, seeing their family members die or get sick while living within the pandemic’s Big Apple epicenter, Khan knew “it was definitely not a time to take any days off.”

“I think school is what’s keeping a lot of students anchored and centered during this time because they know, ‘All right, everything in my crazy world is going on, but I still have to be online at 8 a.m.,’ ” said Khan, 27, who also teaches health, wellness and literacy and is a coordinator for PS 24’s after-school program.

Despite the stress, Khan pushed through her own symptoms, including a pervasive feeling of “mental fog,” so she could be there for her students, many of whom are special-needs kids.

“Our best tool is having the kids know that there is somebody there for them,” Khan said. “Just making sure that we’re a safety net for our kids, and that nothing’s happening at home that’s getting by us and it’s just being there for the students, that’s really it,” she said of her decision to not take off.

“These kids know that we’re here for them and we’re not going anywhere, despite what’s happening.”