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Would you like the nit nurse back in school?

67 replies

georgedontdothat · 31/01/2008 15:02

Just read a study that said if parents knew that a nit nurse was chcking their lo's hair they would make more of a conscious effort to check hair .

I am fed up of them ATM I have 4 DD's with long hair and the minute I get rid of them they come back in again .

It seem to be with DD2 mainly I send her to school with a clean head and then she will come home with at least two walkers but no obvious eggs so I am assuming someone in her class isn't bug busting .

Would just like to be able to have a Nit free term GRR {angry}

So would you be happy with a nit nurse or not ,I definatley would .

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Wisteria · 31/01/2008 15:04

yes, they were a godsend and I don't understand why they were ever stopped in the first place!

FlameNFurter · 31/01/2008 15:04

Yup, they can check DD. Might be hard though because her hair has had 2 french plaits every day this week in a bid to stop em coming back again like the rest of the term.

So far so good.

Spockster · 31/01/2008 15:04

YES
DDs school say they are not allowed to check any more; what is that all about?

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georgedontdothat · 31/01/2008 15:07

Our school now can't ring parents to let them know if their Lo's have lice don't know why but they just have to send out a standard letter to all the class

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bratnav · 31/01/2008 15:08

God yes, since DD1 statrted her new school backin October she was infested. Got her clear during the Christmas holidays, then as soon as she went back the little sods returned, only just got rid again

I seriously think that parents who don't deal with them should be made to pay for all the other kids treatment GRRR

LilRedWG · 31/01/2008 15:08

I was always the one held back by the nit nurse (or it felt like that at the time) and was inevitably teased about it, but it does the job and would support any school that did it now.

Elibean · 31/01/2008 15:11

YES. Please.

Sidge · 31/01/2008 15:12

Nits are the parents responsibility, not a school nurse's. But if a nurse could identify the children with nits/lice and exclude them until they are clear, then the parents that don't bother treating their children might feel more of an incentive to get them clear!

Until all parents take action when their child has nits it will never be treated. It is pointless for us responsible parents to be treating our children when those that are permanently infested don't bother.

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georgedontdothat · 31/01/2008 15:17

When I went to help out in reception before xmas . One little boy had two lice crawling in his eyebrows

I just don't understand it

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tudorrose · 31/01/2008 15:23

oh yes please! i get them from the children in my class all the time. It's horrible!

tudorrose · 31/01/2008 15:26

And totally agree with sidge, its always the same few children with parents that don't bother to get rid of them which makes it pointless for the others really. Its infuriating.

Dabbles · 31/01/2008 15:30

oh yes please!! Bring them back!!

bobsmum · 31/01/2008 15:32

I"m just back from a Bug Busting morning at ds' school which was great.

We had a short DVD to watch - all the children had to watch it too.

The emphasis was on it just being one of these things, and not taking it out on the children who get it.

As usual some of the loud mouths shouted out about being "dirty" or noy washing and the head came down on them like a ton of bricks

Anyway, the way most schools round here are ackling it is to encourage use of the bug busting kit - a few different sized combs and an ordinary conditioner - not chemicals or expensive treatments.

The other thing was that you really can't see the odd nit in dry hair - it needs to be wet so they stop moving - nit nurses wouldn't have time to wet/shampoo/condition every child in a primary school surely?

Ds' school will phone home to the parents if their child has nits. But that's Scottish exec policy.

Elibean · 31/01/2008 15:37

My sister remembers nit nurses coming twice per term when she was a kid. Nits were never a real problem, because they got spotted/treated faster...and she doesn't remember anyone being made to feel bad about them, either.

Now a nit nurse that educates kids/parents/schools about threadworm as well would be even better....

TrinityRhino · 31/01/2008 15:40

yes please
bring back the nit nurse
there are families that just dont bother which means everyone elses children have to catch nits all the time
nit nurse would be able to tell them to sort it

MAMAZON · 31/01/2008 15:46

i am so sick of bloody niots that i actually offered my services voluntarily.
i said i would be the unpaid nit nurse if it meant that the scabby dirty families who just cannot be bothered ridding their own child of headlilce wouldn't keep infecting mine.

i was told that they were not allowed to check the kids hair any more because it was in breach of their human rights or something

i advocate a system where the nurse comes in. any child found with headlice goes home with a letter informing of the infestation.
the nurse comrs back a week or so later and if the child has not been treated they are treated at school and the parents are billed.
not only for the treatment but for the time as well. £20 should work.

tiredemma · 31/01/2008 15:46

I cant see how a school nurse would have the time to check an entire school for nits. Should be the parents responsibility, but agree that some parents just cannot be arsed to check.

Baffy · 31/01/2008 15:49

agree with MAMAZON

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 31/01/2008 15:58

In breach of their human rights? But it's OK for their eyes/hearing to be tested? I don't see much difference really. We don't have a huge problem with this at our school but if we did I'd want Mamazons ideas enforced.

A friend of mine is a hairdresser and visits a family who nearly always have nits. They're certainly not poor. Mother always answer the door and says 'oh sorry, X, Y & Z have nits, is that OK?'. Point being, if she knows her DCs have nits, why can't she tackle it before the hairdresser arrives. Lazy cow!

twelveyeargap · 31/01/2008 16:02

Resounding yes. Letters home to the whole class so as not to "single anyone out" are pathetic. School could post the letter out if they didn't want the child being involved in taking the letter home.

tudorrose · 31/01/2008 16:05

at somone letting a hairdresser near their hair if they know they have nits! poor hairdresser.

moljam · 31/01/2008 16:06

big fat yes from me.

Immaculateconception · 31/01/2008 18:20

Yes!

Blandmum · 31/01/2008 18:32

The insane situation that we now find ourselves in is that while people have Himan Rights, they do not seem to understand that they also have Human Responsibilities.

Lice happen, and they do get passed around. They happen in the best regulated of families. But there is a small, hard core of parents who will not shift the little buggers. The most insane case of which was the friend on a MNetter who whould not shift them because of animal farking cruelty!

Blandmum · 31/01/2008 18:33

The nit nurse used to check all our heads in the 1960.

No nonsence, you put your hed on the desk and she had a damn good look. She found them alright!

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