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do kids at private school catch nits?

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dirtygertiefromnumber30 · 02/02/2008 10:22

my ds attends the local state primary and great though it is, he constantly is infested with nits.

Anyway, about a year ago a friend of mine moved her ds from the same school to a private one and is always droning on about how great it is.

The latest oneupmanship is that her ds never gets nits now and continued to say they she bets it's a state school epidemic.

i told her that was crap. It is, isnt it?

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needmorecoffee · 02/02/2008 10:23

yes they do. What a nobby thing to say re your friend.

BettySpaghetti · 02/02/2008 10:24

Its crap.

Nits don't make distinctions between classes.

fullmoonfiend · 02/02/2008 10:25

hah!

yummylittlelapin · 02/02/2008 10:28

Oh no, nits have a very finely tuned awareness for class. Many a social aspiration has been ruined by the discovery of a nit. They can taste the difference in your hair - upper class hair is much fruitier apparently, a bit like a good Riesling. And obviously working class hair tastes of chip fat.

needmorecoffee · 02/02/2008 10:29

hehehehehehehe
Chateau neuf de nit

HeadHeartorHormones · 02/02/2008 10:29

Oh, you must infiltrate and infest them all!
It will serve her right the cheeky mare.

Blandmum · 02/02/2008 10:30

Yes!

My dd's head was the holiday destination of choice for all the lice in her private school!

In adddition there are idiot parents who send their children to private school who do not effectivly clear their lousy childrens heads, and thus keep re-infesting the rest of the class.

Head /louse ratios are much more advantagious though!

Littlefish · 02/02/2008 10:31

I used to work in a private school which had a fantastic, down-to-earth head teacher. When parents asked her the same thing, she used to say with her tongue very firmly in her cheek

"Oh yes, but our nits are gold plated"

yummylittlelapin · 02/02/2008 10:31

LOL, yes state school children suffer from distinct over-crowding of nits

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dirtygertiefromnumber30 · 02/02/2008 10:39

ha, good. i knew it.

next time he comes for tea i'll encourage lots of head contact

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twelveyeargap · 02/02/2008 10:40

Have to say, there wasn't much of a nit problem in the small-town school that DD went to in Ireland. Think it was because all the parents knew each other and would have been mortified if the whole village knew that their kids were the ones who kept infecting everyone else.

Think the possible shame of people talking about it in the pub was enough to make people check their kids regularly.

DrNortherner · 02/02/2008 10:42

My nephew and neice go to privete school and have had nits far more than my state educated ds.

Blandmum · 02/02/2008 10:50

To a degree it depends on the child. DD was *forever getting them, because she is the sort of child who plays a lot of 'heads together' type stuff. Her brother, who goes to the same school, has never had head lice, in part because his hair is so much shorter, but also because he plays lots of 'running round, bang I've killed you' type of games!

Farcical to make any assumptions of the prevelance of head lice based on school type IMHO.

(dd's lice did wear Boden though )

LadyMuck · 02/02/2008 10:51

Ho hum, well we haven't had nits yet, but I suspect that is because it is a school for just boys, and the idea that two boys would have their heads beside one another for long enough for a transfer to take place seems a trifle optimisitic (other than in a scrum I guess). I know that the girls schools can still have eruptions from time to time.

We live in a borough which still has some single sex state schools so I guess it would be interesting to see if they have a simlar profile.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 02/02/2008 10:53

My DCs are in a state primary and have yet to catch nits .

It is a faith school though. Perhaps the nits find it dull?

ZippiBabes · 02/02/2008 10:54

of course its crap..kids anywhere get nits

LadyMuck · 02/02/2008 10:55

There is of course the possibility that my children are in fact totally nit-infested and that I've never noticed, thereby being the mother of your nightmares!

Blandmum · 02/02/2008 10:55

Divine intervention. God is sending plagues of lice to smite the heads of the unbelievers (He has a track record of this stuff, see Moses in passim)

needmorecoffee · 02/02/2008 10:55

my eldest daughter caught them endlessly (even when home educated) but my two boys with hair down to their bums never did.
dd2 is at a special needs school and no sign of them. Maybe nits are disablist

brimfull · 02/02/2008 10:56

blimey-I can't believe this is serious...thought it was a piss take.

fullmoonfiend · 02/02/2008 11:36

It's poncey prats like the friend in the OP who are most likely to blame for the country's nit infestation in the first place. Too wanky-up-own-arses to wet-comb...

JingleyJen · 02/02/2008 11:38

I went to private school run by nuns and have clear memories of being sat in a line whilst they went through our hair with nitcombs. Ouch!!!

foofi · 02/02/2008 11:39

Oh yes they do.

hifi · 02/02/2008 11:41

theres a permenant sign at dds, worms, ring worm the lot.

evenhope · 02/02/2008 11:46

My DS2 is the child who always got nits. From preschool to Y2 he had them all the time. As fast as I cleared them he'd have them again.

He went to a private school from Y3 to Y6 and didn't get them once. I put that down to the fact that all the boys (except mine) carried combs and combed their hair regularly throughout the day.

He moved to a boys (state) grammar for Y7 and since then has nits at least once a term