To think that kids with nits should be sent home

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I don't know why kids aren't sent home if they have nits and prevented from coming back to school until their parents get rid of them
at the moment there seem to be a fair number of parents who don't seem to care if their child goes to school with nits and gives them to everybody in sight
I don't think there should be a stigma to catch nits, but there should be one if you keep coming to school and inflicting it on everybody else's kids
The school & other parents expect me to keep my kids at home if they are sick or have diarrhoea (not a notifiable disease) and I think this is quite reasonable and abide by this
The school and parents expect me not to give my kids peanut butter sandwiches in case somebody is allergic to nuts and I think this is quite reasonable and abide by this
Why can't this be extended to nits
Why do some parents seem to think that it is not unreasonable to inflict nits on everybody else

peroxide blond hair on a reception child?

Some of the posts are a bit shocking, do we really want children to be sent home because we want parents to be 'shamed' into treating them. It is a fact that some parents just will not bother to treat them but it's not the children's fault

No, just sent home and treated

It's not like the kid's going to be pulled out of assembly and pointed at Lol

I spent 5 hours at the weekend doing the nits
I spent 2 hours tonight
It will be 2 hours tomorrow night and the night after
Should I be helping my kids with reading & writing & tables or should I be doing the nits every night?

I would be very interested in knowing of any schools that do send kids home so that I can speak to the head of the school my kids go to
names off line of course if that is ok

wrt to nits not being an issue compared to loosing a weeks education
well what about my kids crying when I do their hair every night
what about the hot baths of water, the towels to wash and dry
the time
then multiply that by all the other kids in the class

Nits are a fact of school life, they are vaguely annoying like the magic key, spelling tests, colds and vomiting bugs.

They are not the end of the world.

I should say, I agree it is not the kids fault
it's their parents

shame that a teacher cannot differentiate died and dyed eh; and bain/bane too, snigger

Wetcombing is the most effective way to eliminate this programme works

I would be very interested in knowing of any schools that do send kids home so that I can speak to the head of the school my kids go to
names off line of course if that is ok

You don't need to know the names of anyone's schools...just write to the Chair of Governors (get a few parents to do the same if you can) and request that they Governors look into making it a part of School policy.

but sending children home will not ensure they get treated

No it won't ensure it culture but it's a start

And if the parents are inconvenienced and have to keep shelving plans to pick their kids up, they might just get the message.

a lot of the time it is the same children and however discretely it's done other children know and to some extent there is still some degree of stigma

Possibly....or possibly not.

That will depend on the school, the class and the kids in general.

Either way the poor child will need to be treated if they're infested with head lice that are visible enough to be seen by a teacher.

How much stigma do you think is attached to other children also seeing the lice crawling across the child's head?

Worral, thanks, a letter is tomorrow's task
and I thought that to give an example of some other schools that have such policies in place, might lessen the pain

I run a pre-school and we arent allowed to send anyone home who has nits.....its all about inclusion these days!

I would say if a child constantly has nits and the parents are told time and tine again then its classed as neglect if the child doesnt get treated......i

OP, you could probably Google some school policies on head lice...that might bring up what you're looking for.

I know some schools include certain policies on their websites.

DS was sent home from school with conjunctivitis! Nitty kids should be sent home. The parents would soon treat them if the alternative was taking time off work to care for them! I am allergic to headlice, it's bloody agony!
I went on a school trip with DS in reception. The wee girl who's hand I held, had fair hair. Without getting close to her, just lookin down, I could clearly see that her head was heaving with lice! Her hair was moving!
Parent of children like that should be reported to social services!

5 hours to treat nits? Are you serious?

My DD had them for ages on and off and beyond and I used to bring her wee friend home once a week (with her knackered, working 2 jobs, single Mum's grateful consent) and treat her too :)

A nitty gritty comb (was invented during our nitty period!), a basin of water, a good movie and a bowl of popcorn made for a nice wee sociable hour with my girl. 2 or 3 times a week.

Thats what i was getting at Saggy!
Chances are if a child constantly has them and the parents dont treat them ever then there are probably other signs of neglect going on aswell......

I would be surprised if such kids who are a small minority are not known to SS.

Also by Y5/Y6 you may find your DCs less than keen to have their hair combed.
Holding DD2 down to comb her hair when she's not in the mood would have the SS after me. She knows it's pointless, her class just pass them round in circles with exceptions to and from older and younger siblings.

Perhaps it will be better when they are both at senior school?

No I just suspect the girls do their own hair, the mothers don't notice and the nits live happily ever after.

2 and a half hours each day at the weekend for 3 kids
1 or 2 baths wet comb
popcorn 2 or 3 times a week?

3 kids sounds grim op - I can see how the hours stack up now. Just skim read. Lots more work than I had to do (although have a wee one at nursery so have to do it all again soon).

And home made popcorn - quite healthy really. Sweetened the pill.

This thread is making my head itch!

YABtotallyU.
Nits are just headlice. They don't make a child ill, it isn't the end of the world - it's something unpleasant that you hope to avoid, but will be lucky if you manage it with all dc going through school for several years.
If you honestly think that a child will only ever have nits if their parents don't treat them, then you know very little about nits.

But they could become not a way of school life if everyone was made to treat them. There would be no worry about if I treat little bobby he'll just catch them off dressy again because freddy will also have to have been treated

The lad with serve lice that I'm talking about is clearly neglected. Mum wouldn't pick him up for lice. She doesn't come and collect him after an epileptic seizure, she's not gonna give a shit about lice. Is sad, he spends so much time scratching his head he struggles to focus on his work.

You can treat them and send them back but then the eggs just hatch again.

You hve to keep doing it all the time. Nothing seems to really kill those eggs so you end up having to comb through hair like once a week.

It's a pita tbh. If mine were sent home every time they picked up nits, they would barely be at school!