Keeping kids with lice in school

[Anonymous]

I’m waiting for a call back from a school official but MCPS is now letting kids infected with head lice stay in class. We spent some money and effort getting rid of lice and keeping our kid home last year only to hear of this absurd change in policy.

Anyone know how to get this complained out / changed? I guess I can tell my kid to shun any kids with lice but what is wrong with this county? You all complain about Florida, yet my sister’s kids enjoy a lice free education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m waiting for a call back from a school official but MCPS is now letting kids infected with head lice stay in class. We spent some money and effort getting rid of lice and keeping our kid home last year only to hear of this absurd change in policy.

Anyone know how to get this complained out / changed? I guess I can tell my kid to shun any kids with lice but what is wrong with this county? You all complain about Florida, yet my sister’s kids enjoy a lice free education.

This is a standard best practice, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/4/e2022059282/189566/Head-Lice?autologincheck=redirected

[Anonymous]

I don’t recall having to stay home when I had lice. My parents would just wash my hair with that lice shampoo and that was it

[Anonymous]

The CDC now says kids with lice can come to school. It isn’t just MCPS.

[Anonymous]

This isn’t anything new. They always have.

[Anonymous]

And unless something changed since my DD had it many years ago, they only inform the parents of kids in the class if there are more than 5 (?) cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t anything new. They always have.

This.

Lice are annoying, but they do not pose a health risk.

[Anonymous]

Imposing our values on others seems culturally insensitive.

[Anonymous]

Cooties!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imposing our values on others seems culturally insensitive.

What value is "lice management" under again?

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's ever been the case that kids stay home from lice? I just wish the school would send word home that lice is going around so people can check their kids. We only noticed after the lice were all over the kids and me! So gross.

[Anonymous]

This changeover happened when my oldest was in elementary school so maybe 9-10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t recall having to stay home when I had lice. My parents would just wash my hair with that lice shampoo and that was it

The difference is now the lice are resistant to the shampoo. When we were kids, the shampoo killed the lice.

[Anonymous]

Roughly 15-20 years ago, students could not return to school until they could show they no longer had lice or nits.

Live spreads so quickly, I don’t want my kids bringing it home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imposing our values on others seems culturally insensitive.

You joke but lice are a white people thing.