Just have to vent, since I am seething about a dramatic school board meeting (that I did not attend) that entailed a teacher getting all hysterical about the head lice policy that was adopted last May that *gasp* allows kids to return to class after being diagnosed. She went on about a particular student that supposedly was "flipping her hair around" and infecting everyone, apparently. And continued on to say that the teachers have spent $100+ treating their own families. Never mind that we are in a VERY low income area, and the families with head lice problems ALSO have to spend money to treat it. Never mind that EVERY SCHOOL has lice and always will.
Then, one of the board members acted shocked that we just allow kids with lice to "run loose" in the classroom, even though I JUST MET WITH THEM ABOUT THIS POLICY AND REVIEWED IT. AND BROUGHT EVIDENCE. So, now it has to be revisited to appease all the naysayers.
The other nurses and I will be meeting with the board and reviewing the evidence yet again. I am feeling quite discouraged about all of this and want to pull my hair out. There are so many bigger problems in our community and it is disheartening to have to fight and fight about this policy. Over it!
What kills me about the education system as a whole....when someone comes up with a "new and improved" way to test, score, assess...they are all over it like the plague.
When we have TONS of evidence based info, they turn a deaf ear.....
Ebola ain't got nothing on lice!! Ebola was mini hysteria, lice cause mass hysteria. Just today, a parent checked her 2 (about to go to truancy court) kids out early due to the lice outbreak at my school. Really, first I had heard about it!!
I am hoping her plans include home schooling them in a bubble house so that they are never to be exposed.
Licensed School RN is so correct. The correct comb and due diligence is the key to treatment. I get so tired of parents who shampoo (never do the 2nd treatment, probably barely comb) and complain that their kid "keeps getting it at school." Uggh, they never got rid of it to begin with!!!
The town next to mine is fairly well off and has a very active Moms facebook page. Someone posted about her daughter having lice and it evolved into a thread of 103 comments about lice, the school policy on lice, how to prevent lice, etc. You could post about a house burning down and it wouldn't get as much attention.
The town next to mine is fairly well off and has a very active Moms facebook page. Someone posted about her daughter having lice and it evolved into a thread of 103 comments about lice, the school policy on lice, how to prevent lice, etc. You could post about a house burning down and it wouldn't get as much attention.
Assuming the correct information is getting out there, it is good that these Moms are at least openly talking about the issue and it is not considered some "dirty little secret".
We actually have this going on right now, big Facebook thread with 90+ replies, the latest of which states (absolutely false, of course) that the nurse (me) "loudly told her (daughter's) teacher that she had lice". This absolutely did NOT happen. It is entirely fiction, a flat out lie. Didn't happen. Furious.
NutmeggeRN, BSN
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What kills me about the education system as a whole....when someone comes up with a "new and improved" way to test, score, assess...they are all over it like the plague.
When we have TONS of evidence based info, they turn a deaf ear.....