headlice

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AIBU to feel fed up that on the first day back at school we recieved the letter about there being headlice in my sons class .What on the first day already

Yep. Very unreasonable.

I imagine there was a reason (ie a child came back to school riddled) and that is all they can really do.....

Parents that don't check their kids regularly are v unreasonable....

I check mine daily but one of them seems to get them every few weeks sigh....

It just means that some conscientious parent found them in their child's hair over Christmas and has reported that to the school.

YABU to be fed up about it.

I'd rather receive a letter and know there's an outbreak than not so YABU.

They bloody love DD1s hair, I could kiss the person who invented the Nitty Gritty comb.

So glad I have a boy with very short hair!

I'd be totally shocked if that happened at my DS's school! Firstly, never had a letter home about headlice in the the 3 years he's been there and secondly, I can not imagine them having the ability to act so fast as to be able to prepare and copy a letter to send home on the same day . Nothing happens fast around here.

Lula My DS2 13 has very short hair. I found 5 nits in his hair tonight!
DDs both have bloody nits again too!

Well, according to my mother(who knows everything)headlice always do the rounds after holidays . Bit like the latest cold.

YANBU - children shouldn't have nits on their RETURN to school ffs. I am sick and tired of schools saying they can't intervene and do anything about this when they so clearly can. If you can't send your child to school if they've been sick overnight for 48 hours, why can you send them when they're riddled with nits? It's disgusting. Schools know which parents don't check. They should be sent home and admitted once they've been cleaned up.

At our local school there are two families who cause nits for everyone else because they never check their kids. This poor girl is literally crawling with them. The school does nothing. My poor dcs seem to have them all term, there is nothing I can do. I comb every bloody day. During the holidays we're good, then it's back to school and the constant nits.

I'm ranting, but I'm sick of this one. Now and again it's expected, but it's ALL BLOODY YEAR.

We encountered this recently. Our school rule (California) is that the child stays home for maybe 2 days or until clear of them. Everyone else is expected to treat at home in order to avoid. But like a fool I went into class to volunteer (hair tied up) and bloody got them - horrors - though my kids (short hair) avoided it. It was STRESSFUL, I don't know why there are not tighter rules and why people just don't bother checking etc. its actually disgusting.

Whoa, Anony, Cali is strict! My kids in CT have had them twice between Sept and Dec last year, (partly because one of the mums decided to treat her child's hair with Vaseline for some reason...), but no one is expected to stay home.

Yikes HOWDOO. I expect they just slid down those vaselined tresses and climbed up some clean ones. My hair is over-dried, which is why I think they loved it so.

Yes OP, you are.

Why can't they ban children from coming into school if they can see they have nits? Why not?

Surely if someone is regularly crawling with nits, even after a school has pointed this out to the parents, then there is a social services issue as well.

Because you might very well have a child who has only a couple of nits who passes them on. Because the child crawling with nits is unlikely to have home life which suggests anyone will do anything about it even if the child is sent home. Because some children don't itch and could have nits without anyone noticing. Because if you find lice in your child's hair she's probably passed them on as much as the "crawling with them" child. I could go on.