To have found it very difficult not to burst out laughing at this woman?

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I'd have asked her why not!

Why is that, cos they are all manky gits that don't wash their hair or what?

Maybe she will find that they get a better education there than she is clearly able to offer. What a lot of rubbish!

maybe they don't like the taste of blue blood

What colour's the sky in her world? I assume her children will also be going to red brick universities in order to avoid glandular fever and inebriation.

Don't nits like clean hair? Do private school children not wash?

I went to private school, and I was Nitty McNit of Nitsville.

I went to the local comp and never had nits.

With our survey of 2, we prove her wrong.

Is she otherwise sane?

well actually you get a better class of nit.

Really SoH? From reading threads on here I assumed your kids had nits pretty much from starting school to leaving! Why do they not get nits in nursery BTW?

We had a woman remove her child from my state school for this very reason.

"Well, they just don't allow nits through the door".

Loon.

thats ridiculous although if it WAS true I would be selling a kidney to get my daughter into a private school, I am utterly sick of nits!

Nope, no nits in our household ever. I hadn't heard of threadworms until MN either.

There was a nit nurse at our school and I assume any cases of nits were still mentioned to parents and treated appropriately.

Maybe at private schools they are called headlice, as 'nits' is terrible slang

My DD goes to a private school and they get an occasional outbreak of nits. DD has had them once (so far). And gave them to me - the first time I'd ever had them (and I went to state schools)

So, nits are egalitarian. To be fair, the school does seem to be efficient at dealing with the problem - notes go out telling everyone to do a combing, and children who have them aren't supposed to come back to school till they are treated. I seem to remember on a previous nit thread that state schools tended not to deal with the problem effectively.

'the school does seem to be efficient at dealing with the problem - notes go out telling everyone to do a combing, and children who have them aren't supposed to come back to school till they are treated'

That's how state schools deal with it too.

Private school - several grand a term
Packet of nit lotion - £4.95
Deluded poncery - priceless

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I used to phone up a parent regularly to say that her daughter was 'scratching again'. This was code for 'She put her head down on my lap and left three of the buggers there'.

She might occasionally treat her dd, but would never do it again in two weeks. We couldn't exclude her dd for ever due to nits.

My friend's a teacher at a state school. She isn't allowed to tell individual parents that their children have nits, only to generally advise the class as a whole with a generic letter or it's discrimination. I think some of the parents don't read the general advice though.

This a common myth though. You are allowed to bring it to a parent's attention. You do it tactfully though, saying that they are scratching rather than going through their hair yourself.

I think it is the attitude of the head that makes the difference, mine was always keen to let parents know. It just didn't always help that much, sadly.

Oh no it's the head. There were incidents when doing it tactfully, accusations of bullying from parents. It was nasty. They decided to start issuing general letters to all instead. So not 'not allowed' but doing it differently because of sad experience.

That's how state schools deal with it too.

I'd assumed everywhere would, but there was a thread some time ago where the jist was that a lot of schools didn't manage to deal with it properly.

I think I may well have laughed in her face. My kids are at private school and we have an altogether superior class of nit problem thank you very much. Stupid cow. Fortunately most private schools do screen parents for stupidity/crassness first, so ability to pay does not automatically get your child a place.

I work at a state (well here in the US it's called public, but YKWIM) school and we rarely, if ever, have lice. I can't remember the last case actually.

Come to think, some private schools may have a worse problem. DDs school deleted boys' caps and girls' hats from the uniform list some years before she started there because they were nithavens. So if you know any kids who go to properly poncy private schools which haven't had the sense to get rid of silly hats yet, beware of your DCs playing with them.