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Post by jeremysgirl on Oct 6, 2017 22:12:23 GMT
I consider myself one of the luckiest mom's on Earth to have two teenagers who never had lice. Knock wood.
On the other hand my step daughters have had more times than I can count and my DH has spent many an evening combing their hair.
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MerryMom
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Post by MerryMom on Oct 7, 2017 7:28:40 GMT
I've worked in children services for 24 years and I've treated hundreds of children with head lice. We use a Robi Comb.
The no nit policy is overkill and keeps children out of school unnecessarily. If the nits are a certain distance from the scalp, there is no louse that will be hatched, it's an empty casing. You can't hatch a chicken from an empty egg shell,
1/2 inch from scalp; nits are empty.
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Post by katiejane on Oct 7, 2017 8:00:38 GMT
I can't imagine keeping kids off school for head lice! Crumbs the damage the missed learning would do.
We've had them several time. I work in Children Services so I get them every so often.
Treating them takes a time investment over a two week period. But it's not that tough, says the mum with the child with waist long curly hair. I certainly wouldn't pay someone else to comb through to bug bust the critters. More education is always needed, for parents to understand what lice are and how best to treat them. The biggest problem I come across is people under treating, or over treating and thinking it's sorted.
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Post by georgiabeachbum on Oct 8, 2017 0:26:50 GMT
My BFF is the school nurse at an elementary school. There are a lot of lax, lazy, good for nothing parents. She sees the same kids over and over have lice. The parents say they treat the kids, but they don’t treat the bedding, stuffed animals, etc. Therefore, before long the kids are infested again. It is so sad that some parents just don’t care.
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 8, 2017 0:38:50 GMT
They don't tell anyone if someone has lice here, and as far as I know don't banish the kid from school if they have it. Actually I'm not even sure they check, the school nurse is only actually at the school one day a week...
There is also a HUGE attendance push in our district and I wonder if that has something to do with it. As in send your sick kid to school and if they are really sick we'll call you to come get them... then they complain when too many kids are sick at once... hmmm wonder how that happened.
Lice ewww.
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Post by Merge on Oct 8, 2017 1:05:45 GMT
My BFF is the school nurse at an elementary school. There are a lot of lax, lazy, good for nothing parents. She sees the same kids over and over have lice. The parents say they treat the kids, but they don’t treat the bedding, stuffed animals, etc. Therefore, before long the kids are infested again. It is so sad that some parents just don’t care. It’s more likely that they simply don’t comb/pick all the nits out and follow up with re-combing. Bedding and stuffed animals are not where lice live. Re-infestations usually come from a couple of missed nits or nymphs on the child’s own head. A single shampoo treatment is not enough to rid a child of lice, even if followed by deep cleaning the whole house. Too many people focus on the stuffed animals and car seats when they should be going through their child’s hair with a bright light and metal nit comb. More than once.
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Post by Merge on Oct 8, 2017 1:07:45 GMT
My district doesn’t send home kids with lice because our state includes attendance numbers in school ratings, and because ADA affects funding. If we want people to keep their lice-ridden or sick kids home, we need to change those things.
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Post by katybee on Oct 8, 2017 2:38:39 GMT
My district doesn’t send home kids with lice because our state includes attendance numbers in school ratings, and because ADA affects funding. If we want people to keep their lice-ridden or sick kids home, we need to change those things. We also put a LOT of emphasis on perfect attendance, giving out awards and prizes. I HATE perfect attendance awards. I get we want kids to come to school. But when a kid comes to school sick to get a stupid award and gets a bunch of other kids sick, it's counterproductive. And kids cannot control if they have perfect attendance. It's pure luck if you make it through a semester without getting sick. BTW--we also have perfect attendance awards for teachers. I won a prize last year and turned it down.
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Post by katiejane on Oct 8, 2017 14:23:05 GMT
My BFF is the school nurse at an elementary school. There are a lot of lax, lazy, good for nothing parents. She sees the same kids over and over have lice. The parents say they treat the kids, but they don’t treat the bedding, stuffed animals, etc. Therefore, before long the kids are infested again. It is so sad that some parents just don’t care. It's a waste of time to go cleaning mad and treat bedding and toys. You only need to change the pillow case, and towel. It's more likely that they treat once and don't realise that it's not enough. Wet hair, covered in conditioner combed through in half inch segments, with a bug comb every fourth day , for two weeks.
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Oct 8, 2017 17:34:14 GMT
I get that the kids can be in school, unlike when I was a kid. My gripe was that my boys' school would not notify parents that lice was going around. No telling the class or even the grade level. A group of us parents finally convinced the administration to just put in the school newsletter that it was going around. Our kids would come home saying that they were having to put all their belongings in black trash bags because of bugs. But the admin said they couldn't tell parents that lice was going around because it would make a kid feel bad and violate HIPPA. We weren't asking for names, just why our kids had to put their stuff in trash bags every day. I never understood that logic. Yep...violates FERPA. Really? How? (Bolded portion is bolded at my discretion.) I would think that education records would include things like report cards, infractions, discipline issues, individual learning plans, and the like. How does FERPA protect information about lice? I'm not trying to stir up a big debate, I just don't understand the application of FERPA to an outbreak of lice.
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