School not dealing with nits

[alisonb123]

A friend of my daughter has had nits constantly for at least the last 3 years. The school are well aware of this as are many of the parents. The child's mother is in complete denial and claims that she checks her hair.

I have had enough of my daughter coming home with them. What is the best way to approach the school. I am planning to see the Head this time. Any advice.

Thanks

longest - The ones I've heard about, yes, and we get an email round usually making us aware there are nits in school. In my experience parents don't always tell the school when they have treated their DC for lice. I've had two occasions where I've found a single one in my DCs hair and it was dead. This suggests it has come from a head that has been treated (they can take up to 48 hours to stop moving about depending on the treatment).

I use an electric comb on my DCs hair every few days and it seems to be keeping them away (I got it from Boots).

we had this with a child at our previous school. The parents were so frustrated that they approached me as parent governor and asked if I could do anything.
The PTA offered to nit comb every child every day for 10 days until we got rid of them, and/or buy and give out nit treatment shampoos to everyone. (obviously not going to happen, but that was how fed up they were)

I went into head. (who I knew well) I basically said the parents are saying help and isn't there anything the school can do. At first she gave me the standard line, they can only send letter home etc. I reiterated that many parents felt at the end of their tether, that everyone knows which child it is, that there were some very fed up parents out there and wasn't their anything she could do. She said leave it with me I will think about it.

On Monday morning the little girl in question came in with lovely clean nit free hair and a pretty new haircut.

I have no idea what she did, whether she talked to mum or called ss (family were known to ss, so they may have come in to support)

So it can be done.

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"On Monday morning the little girl in question came in with lovely clean nit free hair and a pretty new haircut."

And surprise surprise, next week someone else had given her nits again!

It really doesn't work like that, you know.

Hakuylt, If you educate your children privately, know the Headteacher and ensure any "nitty kid" gets a new haircut, you can prevent any outbreaks. BTW, not sure how steppenmum established the hair was nit free but I am sure stringent checks were carried out