FCPS Lice Policy

[Anonymous]

Very true.

[Anonymous]

Most times it takes several weeks for lice to be notucable

[Anonymous]

I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

Is this a public school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

Is this a public school?

Nope, Catholic. The nurse is pretty hard-core, lol. My sister worked in a daycare center and had to deal with lice herself and man, that was a pain. I think we all understand that it happens, but I’d rather we do what we can to keep it from spreading. When it hit my dd’s nursery school, they let us know and I kept her hair in a ponytail and used some sort of lice-discouraging hairspray during that time. I prefer to know to watch for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

Is this a public school?

Our Fairfax County public school does this. I don't think there is a bounty wide policy. Our principal also runs a tight (clean) ship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

Is this a public school?

Our Fairfax County public school does this. I don't think there is a bounty wide policy. Our principal also runs a tight (clean) ship.

That’s against FCPS policy.

https://www.fcps.edu/node/32074

All parents have to do is certify that they used lice shampoo (which doesn’t work) and kid can come back the next day. Your principal can’t stop them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large lice can jump to another person.

No they can’t. They crawl from one head to another. Kids are much more likely than adults to have close head contact, especially in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large lice can jump to another person.

Life can’t jump. They don’t have knees. They crawl only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large lice can jump to another person.

This is not true. Lice don't "jump", climb, or fly or anything like that. THey are pretty fragile in that regard. Which is why one of the local lice remediation companies tells people "a louse on the floor is a dead louse." You literally need head to head contact (or sharing hats/brushes). So, even with live lice, you're unlikely to get it unless you are touching other peoples' heads (more likely in the younger grades). That's probably why "nits" are allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

Is this a public school?

Nope, Catholic. The nurse is pretty hard-core, lol. My sister worked in a daycare center and had to deal with lice herself and man, that was a pain. I think we all understand that it happens, but I’d rather we do what we can to keep it from spreading. When it hit my dd’s nursery school, they let us know and I kept her hair in a ponytail and used some sort of lice-discouraging hairspray during that time. I prefer to know to watch for it.

So you have to keep your kid home for 10 days to 2 weeks? Because that's how long it takes to fully get over lice. That is from the Lice Happens people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad my school takes it seriously. The child stays home until it’s gone, and classmates parents are made aware. We’ve had one case there in the last two years.

Is this a public school?

Nope, Catholic. The nurse is pretty hard-core, lol. My sister worked in a daycare center and had to deal with lice herself and man, that was a pain. I think we all understand that it happens, but I’d rather we do what we can to keep it from spreading. When it hit my dd’s nursery school, they let us know and I kept her hair in a ponytail and used some sort of lice-discouraging hairspray during that time. I prefer to know to watch for it.

So you have to keep your kid home for 10 days to 2 weeks? Because that's how long it takes to fully get over lice. That is from the Lice Happens people.

Well, I don’t know the specifics of the policy, because my kids haven’t gotten lice, but I imagine the school follows the traditional “no nit” policy, so if you’ve removed the nits manually, they should be able to go back to school. Some schools have dropped the “ no nit” policy and let kids back in with nits.

[Anonymous]

Neighbor had a kid in a classroom that eventually had to be moved out so the room could be fumigated. It seems like there were lice there all year--I think it turned out to be one child who kept bringing them in--mom had not followed protocol with bedding, etc.

My neighbor's kid was over here one day(different neighbor). Mom called to tell me next day to tell me she had lice (not from my house.) I bagged up everything she was around. We never had a problem with them here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just check your kid every day. I am still traumatized by the one time we got it.

This. And read: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/401192.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large lice can jump to another person.

I don't believe this is true. - Lice Lady.

Lice are transmitted by hugs and shared screen time, shared hats and shared devices.