Did your school screen you for scoliosis or head lice?

Scoliosis- yes. Multiple times at school. That was how they found something in my cousin.

Never for head lice

Eta- our pcp did the scoliosis at the kids annuals each year, I don't know if they did them at school for them or not

Scoliosis, yes. Lice, no.

Lice were completely abstract to me - I never heard of anyone having them until I was an adult. Now, however, I work at an elementary school... LOL

Scoliosis - yes, I remember screenings at school, but never for head lice (I'm 64). DD's pediatrician checked her every year, but I don't recall them happening at her school.

I was checked for scoliosis when I was in elementary school, around grade 5 or 6 I think. I really don't remember being traumatized by it - we had talked about it in health class so I suppose they must have given us information at that point. I do remember being told that it strikes girls more than boys and I also remember thinking great, periods and bending spines.

They were still doing them when my kids were in school - my friend's dd was diagnosed during one of the checks.

I don't remember ever being checked for lice but I also don't recall a single outbreak. It must have happened - we played baseball and shared batting helmets and wore shared helmets when we played ringette in gym class.

Scoliosis- yes. (And I have it, so also at doctors office, even now)

Lice -no. Nor for my kids.

Yup! Yearly in elementary and Jr highfor scoliosis. In Jr high it was during state physicals where we had to do push ups, sit uos, etc for the Arnold S fitness challenge.

Never in high school.

Headline checks were when a student had it.

We also had yearly vision and hearing screens.

All still done in my area.

Scoliosis checks. I remember having to take my uniform shirt off! My mom sent me in an undershirt, always. It felt fucked up.

Also DEENIE! Yep, I was totally convinced they were going to say "Yes, she has scoliosis." 

Scoliosis checks for me but never a lice check for me or my kids.

Someone had lice at their preschool because all the soft toys/furniture and dress-up things disappeared for cleaning and we were told to check out kids, but nothing was done at school.

I always had to get checked a second time and it was scary. I read that book too!

I had scoliosis checks (elementary school in late 80s.) I don’t remember lice checks but I have been told the6 happened if there was an outbreak.

When I was teaching in the late 90s and early 2000s they were not doing either anymore. But lice notices would go out if there was an outbreak. Kids who had lice were sent home.

My boys are now 8n high school. Never had either check at school. Kids aren’t sent h8me for lice anymore either.

me? no to scoliosis (and I wish we had - mine wasn't diagnosed until adulthood), hearing/eyesight? no again (and again, I wish otherwise as I lost most vision in one eye to lazy eye that wasn't diagnosed until I was 17). probably not lice either - it was something I only heard of in books until my middle went to school (and brought it home).

My kids? yes to scoliosis and vision/hearing. I also always made sure they were checked by the paediatrician and had regular eye exams due to my history - one of mine did have lazy eye, caught as a preschooler and treated successfully). As far as I can tell, lice checks were only done (by the nurse) if you were returning to school after having had lice.

No, not screened for any of those things in school. Hearing or vision either.

As a child I never had a lice scare and neither did my children. Thank goodness.  I was  checked for scoliosis and so were my kids.

You just jogged my memory. We had hearing and vision tests and earthquake drills. I lived in the Bay area right right after the big 1989 quake. After that we did a lot of earthquake drills in school. Our parents had to send us with a box of emergency supplies to keep at our desk and when the earthquake drill alarm went off we had to crouch under our desks for a few minutes. I was 6 or 7. Once I moved out of that school district there were no more earthquake drills.