Head lice - what does your child's school do?

[HouseworkProcrastinator]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed about the amount of times my child has come home with head lice from school.
The first time she got them I told her teacher and she replied " yeah we have noticed a few with them in the class we will send a letter home" then they send a general letter saying there have been a number of cases and could all parents check their child's hair. But she is not aloud to tell a particular parent that they have seen lice on their child.

My daughter and her friends have all at some point said they have seen bugs in one child's hair, and a couple of the parents have also seen them on this one child. It seems rediculous to me that they can't mention it to a parent if they see it. And that just one parent ignoring the letter means that the children are getting them all the time.

In another school I know that if they see them they will send that child home with a note and ask they not come back to school until it is sorted.

And why did they stop the nit nurse?

ours are selling nitty gritty combs half price (or sending them home free I think for chronic offenders seems odd to me that you can't let the parents know its on their child - I'm sure its all anonomous)
they've also started a nit busting day of the month so lots of reminders and fact sheets on what to look for on that day, and encouraging girls to have their hair tied back all the time
but this is only after lots of complaining from parents and I think a few very peeved ones providing all the info for school to distribute and selling combs in playground

Most schools dont send home but ive known schools tell parents. There are things you can do to help them not get them. Head lice cant jump they have to crawl from one head to another via hair contact hence boys get them less often. Keeping hair tied in a bun if long enough can help. depending on age of child telling them to avoid excessive hugging, like the type 10 year olds do saying hello good bye etc. tea tree oil in shampoo can also help as they dislike the smell.

Know these arn't ideal but as someone whose had the same issue it does help. Also be careful which lice remover you use. they dont necessarily kill all the lice. two weeks of nit combing every other day with nit comb and conditioner is the only way of making show they all go.

Sorry I didn't mean they send them home there and then meant send a note home with them at the end of the day.

I have tried tea tree oil, I put her hair up but she is always scruffy with bits hanging out by the time I pick her up. She is not really a Huggy child but they do sit close to each other on the carpet.

Maybe we should just start complaining more

In our school, and communication between a teacher and a parent about a child to which I was unrelated would most definitely be confidential. So we would never be in the position of knowing whether or not there had been any direct communications about seeing nits on another child, no matter how notorious in the playground.

Maybe I didn't explain that very well...

The teacher is not aloud to tell a parent that she has seen lice on their own child's head all she can do is give general notes out to the whole class.
I.e if she saw them on my daughter she wouldn't be aloud to tell ME just has to hope I take notice of the letter and check my child's hair.

I would not expect to be told which children have them at all that is of course wrong but I think they should be able to tell the parent of that child that does.

If one parent keeps ignoring the letters and never checks her child's hair it is very frustrating.