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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my kids, 1st and 3rd grade, and I get lice at least once a year because they county "can't" do anything about it. I don't understand and it is making me furious! The aftercare does an awesome job of checking for lice and sending kids home, but it is way beyond their control, as they can't check every kid in the school or try to decontaminate the classrooms.  This is a basic hygiene issue for me so I don't quite get what the issue is - ie there are bugs at the school, solve the problem as a pre-school would (not hygiene in the showering/dirty sense) Kids/I miss at least 3 days of work/school a year for something that is solvable. The current situation is that only the aftercare kids get checked/sent home on a regular basis, but the cycle continues b/c there is no policy about dealing with the rest of the school population.

I am about to lose my shit on this because it is so inane.[/quote]

The advice MCPS has received is that it would be a violation of privacy to either check all students periodically or to send a letter to the parents of classmates that one student has lice.

[b]I personally would like students to have their temperatures taken each morning so sick kids can be sent home.[/b]  I understand, however, why they don't do that.[/quote]

You understand that a fever does not equal contagious, right?  And that many kids who are contagious do not get fevers?

Heavens to Betsy, I'm glad you don't make the rules.

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