Son sent home from school

[Gizzygizmo]

School rang me around 1pm so say teacher has seen movement in his hair and I’ve to come collect him to treat his hair, said no worries and collected him.
No problem with that as I know how much of an issue it can be, even though I checked his hair 2 days ago after an email warning of lice in the school, he didn’t have any.
Got home checked every inch of his hair and can’t see a single lice.
I’m feeling extremely annoyed now, dont know what they saw but It certainly was not a headlice.
Thankfully I only work part time and wasn’t at work neeeing to leave early.
He’s 7 and has a development delay so he didn’t have much of an idea of what was going on.

Wibu to contact The school Monday morning about this?

From the NUT website...
As a general rule, the NUT does not favour excluding children with head lice from school in such circumstances. Excluding the child is unlikely to solve the problem and the child would suffer the stigma of exclusion for a reason beyond their control. Other contagious, but less noticeable, cases will probably remain. Exclusion is not used for other conditions with low transmissibility, such as verrucas and herpes simplex and, although unpleasant, head lice do not constitute a threat to public health.

Don’t be that parent. So they made a mistake. Nobody was hurt, just a bit inconvenienced. Let it go this time, you’ll do differently next time

I'd say disrupting a child's learning is an inconvenience.

I'd rather they went home as if another child saw the nits, that would be their name for the rest of their school life.

I'd want to know if this was an actual school policy which they are applying equally to all children - it should be written down somewhere.

We get parents to collect if we see live lice.

It's not exclusion!!!

I used to be a teacher and I remember being able to see nits in hair, without looking. One time one fell out on to the child's school book. Another time, the child's hair was fine and the nits were huge and had changed colour to match her blonde hair.
If they aren't treated for nits, there end up being so many it's impossible not to see them.

I live in the Netherlands and we have the ‘lice mothers’, volunteer parents who check every head at the start of the term. Letters are sent home a week in advance and parents know they will be called if any live lice are detected. I heard that this year has been terrible for infestations.

I understand your frustration but if there is no longer a system for in school checks, then this is a consequence.

I wish it was the norm to send children home for nits. We need one day where every child is treated in the whole country.

At my sons primary school they're not allowed to notify individual parents as apparently it's discrimination 🙄. Everyone knows who the kids are with lice - and yes they're that bad they can sometimes be seen. Generic letters to all parents is all that happens

Years ago my ds's school sent home loads of children on suspicion of nits on the dress rehearsal for the Xmas play which was put on so younger siblings could watch the performance before the main event.

Dress rehearsal was cancelled, loads of children crying because their younger sibling couldn't see them in the play. Still resent that head teacher for making that call to cancel and disappoint young children. I doubt that one more hour would have made that much difference.

Thanks everyone for the views.
I can understand if they are visible, but there was clearly none visible as I haven’t found 1 nit.
Its making me question why they sent him home, it wasn’t lice. I Will be approaching the school Monday morning about it.

That idea in the Netherlands is great I think.
Bring them all in , Hoover up the feckers and everyone gets checked, no exclusion.
Your school must have zero tolerance policy. Fair enough I think. Some teachers looking at the same old nits scuttling in heads for days on end. Some are so big, they’d wave hello at you.