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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my only memories of the sole African American child in my elementary school was during the lice check when the "nurse," who looking back was likely maybe only if we were lucky some sort of trained admin/clerical, made a big deal of how hard it was to do the lice check because the little girl had her hair in pigtails/braids and her hair was "tight on her scalp." I can still remember the nurse squawking loudly "your mommy puts your hair so tight you are going to have headaches" and "how do you not have headaches." We moved soon thereafter and no idea what happened to the little girl, but maybe checking each other's bodies for bugs is a thing that needs some minimal amount of privacy and training.  There's nothing shameful about lice, but there is a lot shameful about adults making it a big deal and well...a  whole lot of adults are horrible people and we all know kids pick on up and follow bad adult behavior.     [/quote]

Well the other glaring error in this whole episode is that North American lice don't like African American hair (their little claw feet have evolved to cling to white hair) - so the little girl didn't need to be checked.[/quote]

Or at least the concern is MUCH less:  http://headlicecenter.com/can-black-people-get-lice/[/quote]

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