Lice! "no nit policy" do you still have one?

[RN4STUDENTS]

SO lice our favorite topic! I don't understand why everyone is so scared of them! They don't jump or fly even though the teacher swears she saw them jumping!!! really?! My school still has a "no nit policy" I don't agree with it, but I am very lucky I don't see too many cases of lice so I don't really have a nit problem. I did have a nit problem in the past and had to exclude a student who was already doing poorly because she had nits. It took over a week to get her back into school and eventually they cut her hair so short she was devastated. I never saw any lice walking around and the was combing the hair out to show the guardians how it needed to be done. I am thinking about making a change and doing away with the policy but I can tell it may not go well as the teachers would freak out...

[AdobeRN]

We don't have a "no Nit Policy" anymore but we still have the policy to send kids home if live lice are found. All the districts around us have changed to just notifying the parent if lice are found but not sending the kids home - so I am thinking it will not be long before our district policy will change. I would love for our policy to change to where the kids don't get sent home but I know that will just open a huge can worms for me & staff to deal with.