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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, I’m glad my kids school isn’t like this! DCPS. There was a case of lice in my kid’s class last year. They sent a message to all parents and then the nurse was in the class every single morning for over a week checking every single head. If you had lice, parents were called and told to take you home and treat. My daughter never got it (thank god, I’m afraid of bugs) but I always braid her hair in the morning and for over a week it was clear that it had been redone each day - the nurse was taking her hair down and checking, and someone was rebraiding it (maybe the teacher? Not sure).

I was so grateful they were so thorough. Especially after that experience, I would always tell!

I could see how you wouldn’t if you knew the school wouldn’t do anything.

Maybe DC elementary schools are better about this because they also have PKs and they have blankets for taking naps? It’d be so easy for lice to just run rampant if they weren’t diligent. [/quote]

Huh, we are in a DCPS that has a current lice outbreak and they don't do any of this. It was actually hard to get them to even send a notice out to families about it -- I think the PTO had to push. They are definitely not sending the school nurse in to do lice checks every day, and the nurse isn't calling any parents or sending kids home (I do not think they are allowed to do this). There's also no way they'd be unbraiding and rebranding kids' hair daily -- this would take forever.

I believe it is DCPS policy to, at most, let parents know lice is circulating and to check their kids. I am very, very skeptical that what you are describing here would be permitted in a DCPS elementary school for a host of reasons.

Glad your DD never got lice.[/quote]

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