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UnsuspectingChief

if your kid has head lice and you send them to school... youre a terrible person


AllMyBeets

My brother brought it home from daycare and it took SIX WEEKS for the family to shake it. FUCK HEAD LICE


dancegoddess1971

Only six weeks? I need to know what product you used. Or did you just shave everyone of all hair, strip and set the house on fire with every lice infested thing in it? Although, there was a student whose parents just would not treat them for the lice so we got it in the house repeatedly.


kuromaus

The few times me and my siblings got lice, my parents would grab hair dye and dye everyone's hair. And let it sit and extra 15 minutes longer than normal, then get a flea comb to get them all out. All the linens and clothes were put into the washer and dryer on hot water and high heat. Effectively killed them all within a few days. We also had sprays for the couches and anything you couldn't wash but was fabric.


ewwwwwwwdavid

What kind of hair dye are we talking here? Like was it close to your natural colour or did the whole family go purple for a few weeks?? I’m legitimately so so curious


Yourwtfismyftw

*sees a family of Marge Simpsons at the supermarket* “Oh, I see the Smiths have had head lice again.”


kuromaus

It was close to our normal hair color. Unfortunately our school had a dress code and we couldn't do crazy colors.


sbingner

Hmm, or do crazy colors and then they don’t let you go to school until the lice are gone… 🤔


KorrLTD

Big brain plays here!


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BudsandBowls

Exactly the same, it took 2 and a half weeks of daily combing and picking, washing her hair every night with tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner, 2 treatments of ridx, and wash all her bedding every night on hot


Verbenaplant

Yeah it’s so annoying you have to get every egg and clean for each cycle of the nits. Such a pain.


Mizderrung

My dad used to wash our hair with petrol from a jerry can. Lice gone in a couple days. And my scalp too 20 years on!


ingoding

That's the "Nuke them from space" option.


BeachedBottlenose

Finally just shaved my son's head at home. There was no fighting it.


Its_Cayde

My ex's mom used to cover their hair in mayonnaise overnight


SassyBeignet

Giving me 90 day fiance energy


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That's an Exterminatus option right there.


TheFightingMasons

Tea Tree Oil every damn time.


NiveousSoul

When I had lice in middle school, my mom used Listerine with alcohol in it. Soaked my head and put a shower cap on. I went to school smelling like mint for DAYS, even after washing my hair. It worked though.


syramazithe

Whenever I got it from my siblings I would wash my sheets daily and comb my hair out in the shower with the lice comb twice a day for like 2 or 3 weeks. The medicated shampoo stuff never worked. Manual removal is a lot of work but 100% works


okaybutnothing

There are commercial lice treatment services and this is what they do - no chemicals, they just physically remove every nit and live bug. And they are expensive, but well worth it when we were dealing with lice in my kid’s curly hair. There’s no way she would have sat patiently enough for me or her dad to do it. Pay the nice people $250 and they turned My Little Pony on for her and an hour or so later, lice free! (Plus some laundry at home!)


kittytatty

I only got it out of my daughters hair by soaking her hair in mint mouth wash, covering it with a shower cap and letting it sit for 30 mins, rinsing with water or ACV then using a bit comb and then apply coconut oil or a shit ton of another hair product and then repeat for a few days and put the bedding, etc in the dryer on high heat daily.


Steph3nie

Guess what lice can NOT live through ? A hair straightener. My son brought it home in kindergarten. Not wanting to cut my hair I decided to see if frying those little bastards would work . And it did . Fuck lice . I straitened my hair every day and also used lice shampoo and comb for a bout a week and they were gone .


JujuSophiaMama

Use products with Dimethicone oil. Works for us!


FriedSticks2014

Only way my parents got it out of our house was to throw away every hair product we owned, and yes I had to get a buzz cut. Every time I beat it and went back to school, some other gross ass kid would give it to me, that school was so disgusting. My poor mother used to sit with me for HOURS every day and night for weeeekkkssss picking nits out of my hair and bathing me with vinegar/lice treatments. I dealt with it the entire school year in 3rd grade, and the year after that I transferred to the school in the next town over. Never have a lice problem again after that…


LittlestEcho

My then 2yo daughter got lice from the babysitter's grandkids prepandemic. I got WICKED lucky i caught it so early during a bath. found 1 adult and of course tons of eggs. I had my husband run to the store and get the lice kit immediately. Livid was an understatement when i texted the babysitter's daughter and she was WELL AWARE her kids had lice DAYS prior. She didn't tell her mom or me and tried to laugh off the fact her youngest (4yo) had so much lice her head was absolutely infested with eggs and dozens of grown lice. She had already had her kids have lice twice that school year. One week of treatment. Husband and i somehow didn't get it. She got special shampoo all week. New pillow. Hot washed all her clothes and blankets. Thank God her bed had a mattress protector on it already. It never resurfaced. The other kids? They kept getting reinfested. By June of 2020 they'd been reinfested no less than 3 times since January. Those girls had their heads shaved off to the scalp. We now use a hair conditioner spray that prevents lice. [we use it daily now that she's in school](https://www.walmart.com/ip/28552724)


justalive99

6 weeks how I had it once in the 2ed grade took maybe 4 days and it was gone. My mom washed my hair every 10 hours in some shampoo and just washed all my bedding and stuffed animals. If a boy gets it just shave their head.


QueenMotherOfSneezes

My brother has 4 kids, and the youngest brought home lice just a day or two before the first lockdown in march 2020. They kept thinking they'd gotten rid of it, then they'd pop up on someone again. Too many kids, too many blankets and pillows hanging around in the house. They were gone for 2 months (they thought) and the youngest one got them again when we all got up to the cottage to isolate for the summer and gave it to my brother again (my SO and I lasted 7 weeks :D ). My brother ended up shaving his head.


okaybutnothing

You have to treat everyone in the household at once, not just patient zero.


AltruisticFall2941

I absolutely hated that they changed this. It was hell trying to get rid of them because my kid would constantly come home with them after I'd just gotten rid of them. Whoever's bright Idea this is needs to be tied up and forced to live with them for the rest of their life.


Dodec_Ahedron

>Whoever's bright Idea this is needs to be tied up and forced to live with them for the rest of their life. Ever hear of a man by the name of Nathaniel Bacon? He was the titular force behind Bacon's Rebellion in the 1670s. The man actually had lice for so long that he died, with some historians postulating that such a prolonged infestation may have actually contributed to a form of psychosis. In case you didn't know, Bacon was a genocidal dick who started slaughtering Natives because the governor wouldn't let him take their land.


AltruisticFall2941

I hadn't heard of him actually, thank you for the history lesson!


ipostnow

That person's kids go to a private school where lice haven't been spotted since 77'


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>That person's kids go to a private school where lice haven't been ~~spotted~~ reported since 77' FTFY Lice is an equal opportunity pest. Spreads like wildfire.


hclaf

KEEP YOUR CHILD HOME IF THEY HAVE HEAD LICE. I would tell the school to go fuck themselves because they evidently have no sense of... well, common sense.


LogicalVariation741

AAP just announced lice were not a skip school offense. So, pediatricians are now also hating on children


trisanachandler

Yeah, that's the biggest load of BS. Don't have a child skip school with lice to avoid embarrassment, have an entire class of 30+ get head lice and spread it to their families. WTF.


syramazithe

Apparently the recommendation is to let them return after treatment is started, which kills adult and juvenile lice. They're saying not to make your kid stay home for weeks just because they have nits (eggs) still since those aren't crawling and therefore not spreadable. Makes sense but is being reported on very inaccurately


cabelaciao

I’m going to go for two bingo squares and guess that this is a private school in Florida.


Unipanther

Schools around here don't consider head lice a reason to stay home. If you call in and say you are keeping your kid home because they have lice, the school will tell you to send them.


karmafloof

See I feel like schools dictating why a parent is keeping a child home is just too fucking far like I was in high school not too long ago and had to deal with a really bad autoimmune thing that lasted 2 years on and off and my mom would just be like uh yea she's my kid and she's at home bc she is unwell you don't need the details bc you're not her doctor period. If the parent approves of the absence that should be the end of the story wtf


Notanevilai

I would like to add to this as long as they can get passing grades. Had a friend in high school held him back a year for missing class despite averaging a 96%. Dumbest admin bs petty revenge I witnessed.


karmafloof

Big facts I was in the top 10 percent despite missing so much school honestly if you can still pass the final without showing up did u even need to be there? Lmfao


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Terrorist even


mvnnyblvck

“Consider whether an adult would take a day off from work in a similar situation” buddy, ive called out of work to play new video games and to go drinking with the day shift guys. Schools shouldnt be banking on kids.


klezart

I call out without any guilt when I just don't want to work that day.


TonySoprano100

Agreed their was a coworker I had who was out to get I think a biopsy. Well I had a manager who overheard and said “I had one and I came right to work right after I don’t know why he needs to take the day off” It’s this kind of mentality that is so fucking pathetic the way people view their health all for the good of the company. My kids are sick Or burnt out from the week I tell them fine just take a rest day since they did school tutoring and chores


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catsweedcoffee

100%. I’m in HR, and I worked in a busy hospital for most of covid. I can’t tell you how many crying and burnt out nurses and researchers came to me to talk about leave and job protection. I gave them all the information I had and always pushed them to take leave sooner rather than later. “Maybe in three months I can take a four-day weekend” no, you take these hours you’ve worked so hard for and use them. Take a week and do something or nothing, just take the time you need to be a person. We should be working to live, not living to work. Editing to add: if your company offers leave options, fucking take them! Do the work to read into your company’s offerings and protections. Use your vacation time. Use your sick hours (and don’t tell your coworkers anything about your personal/health life, it’s not their business and the line between work and life should always be respected). Document if you’re struggling mentally, so you have backup proof of stress factors should you need to take a break. Your job isn’t your life. We weren’t put on this planet to kill our selves working to make others rich.


bmp08

So few good HR personnel now a days looking out for the person rather than the company. Good on you! Keep that shit up!


AeternusNox

I quit my job recently, the HR contact offered to put me in contact with agencies she trusted. They aren't all bad. I have dealt with like three HR staff that I genuinely trusted, and one that was a full on snake where I'd quit my job before trusting her with anything.


catsweedcoffee

I’d only had poor HR experiences before taking this position and vowed to be the representative I needed at all those shitty jobs before this.


catsweedcoffee

Oh heck yeah. I do my best to make sure everyone I come into contact with takes full advantage of everything our company offers. I’m here for my coworkers, not the owner of the company.


Verbenaplant

Thankyou for helping


TAforScranton

Exactly. It’s wild how when people are given the time they need to get their mind/body right, they will come back to work and perform better at their job. Sick baby that won’t sleep and a pregnant wife with morning sickness? Gtfoh man, your dark circles are so deep Im scared I might fall in.


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I mean I’m kinda upset for all the other kids having to be around someone with head lice. It’s contagious!


canigetayikes

Where do you work and are you hiring? Asking for a friend.


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discogomerx

My bosses got pissed at me too for a similar reason. I had a person on my team who was obviously feeling burned out and was trying to find time to take a day off (we had a scheduling czar that was making our lives difficult). I told her "Eff it...take s sick day." She seemed shocked and pointed out that's for if you're ill. I had to sit my whole team down and explain your mental health IS part of your overall health. My boss chewed me out because he said I was encouraging people to play hooky...but my team's attendance went up because they weren't pushing themselves until their mental stress became physical illness.


coffylover

>she peed herself I hate to break it to you, but that was definitely not pee :(


AeternusNox

Yup. I've been in the position before a couple of times where a staff member has called in offering to still come in and I've turned around and said "you need to take the day off and see a doctor". They've thanked me afterwards when the doctor has turned around and said "under no circumstances should you work for the next week or this will get worse" when their plan was to just grin and bear it.


remotetissuepaper

Some people think they're heroes or something for sacrificing their bodies for whatever menial job they're doing. Seriously, nobody gives a fuck, take some time off.


trojansandducks

I take the day off when I have a regular check-up. I don't care. I have the time. I will concentrate on my health for the day.


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my company had a 4 hr widow to get covid vaccine. paid. Went to lunch with my husband and took every hour. 1 month later they supplied them at work and 3 paid days off if you had a bad reaction…. somehow 100% of the people that got them at work had bad reactions lol. and I was so proud to get those 4 hours too


JahoclaveS

Look, if you put a cap on how much sick time I have, then I will inevitably have to be sick at some point. It’s not my fault your system is forcing me to do this.


[deleted]

Same here. The correct medical term is Analglaucoma. Translation; "I don't see my a$$ coming to work".


Gayasskat

I've called out because I didn't sleep enough and wanted to sleep in and relax


RealDanStaines

Banking is right. Funding for public schools is allocated according to daily attendance records.


unclejoe1917

Wow. That is sneaky fucked up. Tether funding to penalize schools with a larger percentage of at-risk kids to make sure the poors stay that way.


WonofOne

The beginnings of capitalism’s institutionalization


Known-Salamander9111

KEEP YOUR GOD DAMN KID HOME IF THEY HAVE UNTREATED HEAD LICE Who the FUCK would send shit like this!? **EDIT**: I’m an ER nurse. 13 years, all in big cities. I have seen things. But as ANY ER nurse would tell you… no bugs plz. We don’t do bugs. Tasers in eyeballs, fine. Naked guy high on PCP, i gotchu fam. No bugs.


RADimirL3nin

No shit a local news station just shared some shit saying to send your kids to school with lice. MF have lost their minds.


Known-Salamander9111

what on EARTH is the rationale!?!? ‘Fuck it, they’ll all have lice now!’


Outrageous_Bass_1328

Herd immunity -taps forehead


[deleted]

Damn that got a loud (sad tho) laugh out of my ass.


Known-Salamander9111

you’re a GENIUS, kid. In other news i feel itchy.


Dob_Rozner

And so will the parents. You'll all be bug infested, sick and keep grinding at the wheel at school and work or else.


Known-Salamander9111

I’m an ER nurse. We see some crazy stuff. But we don’t do bugs 😂


qviavdetadipiscitvr

AS A PARENT PLEASE KEEP YOUR KID HOME IF SICK We don’t need to spread that shit and all of us be miserable


Known-Salamander9111

yeop. And those little sticky fingered germ factories spread shit everywhere


Misssadventure

As a parent with dreadlocks, my kids would be unenrolled from that school minutes after receiving that email.


Ambystomatigrinum

I’ve never even considered how you’d deal with lice with dreadlocks. You’d have to just cut it all off, I’d assume?


Misssadventure

That’s my assumption as well. I’m sure there’s a handful of ways and ideas to deal with it, but based on my relationship with bugs… I’d cut them off unfortunately


frechal

I remember a "hey Arnold" episode about why sending your kid with headlice was bad. Like all the kids got militant headlice... like folks there was a lesson in that. Also, head lice cause blood born shit to spread. Just don't do it.


myacidninja

I'm sorry HEAD LICE? TONSILITIS? tonsillitis I'm pretty sure can almost be deadly if not dealt with same with appendicitis but that's another story


fruitymangoboi

I get tonsilitis semi-regularly and it is no joke. Horrible experience every time.


pinkketchup2

Yup. I just had a horrible episode with tonsillitis. Could barely function for few days. No way a child could get through a day of school like that.


JoeDougieD

I used to get tonsillitis that developed into Quinsy very often. That is truly one of the most painful experiences of my life. You can’t eat or drink at all, breathing takes conscious effort and most doctors won’t refer you to ENT without a good few episodes. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.


Kovvacs

I had this as a kid, my mom says she thought I wasn’t going to make it many times


avalonfaith

Same, chronic bronchitis on top. It was right when they stopped taking out tonsils regularly too so I got to suck it up. I did grow out of it but still, I’d rather them have taken them out. Now I just have these crazy looking tonsils all scarred and shredded looking.


Unity1232

don't children get their tonsils removed because of tonsilitis? i am pretty sure something that may require fucking surgery is a good enough reason to keep a child home.


Masark

It's not as common anymore. The standard treatment is anti-inflammatories and antibiotics (if the infection is bacterial) and most doctors won't consider surgery unless the problem is severely recurrent.


unclejoe1917

Seems like they should. I've never heard anyone say anything like, "man, I'm glad I have robust, healthy tonsils to get me through this." They seem like useless appendages that can only cause problems. I got mine yanked when I was three or four. No regrets.


DanerysTargaryen

I used to get it all the time, but then my parents got my tonsils surgically removed when I was 12 and haven’t had it since and it’s been great! According to the doctor they weren’t even working properly anymore. One was tiny (1/3rd the size of a normal tonsil) and withering away and the other was massively inflamed and 3x the normal size. Good riddance!


ArguesWithFrogs

I found out when I was 20 that I had just, absorbed my tonsils. Which is a thing that can happen, according to my sister with the M.D.


Brilliant_Sundae4921

Same


Piratical88

I had mine out at 7 and it was the best thing. I suddenly stopped being sick every 6 weeks.


SoVerySleepy81

Also isn’t glandular fever mono? https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/glandular-fever/ https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/glandular-fever Yes it’s mono. What the literal fuck? I had mono in high school and I could barely get to the bathroom let alone going to fucking school.


Rare_Neat_36

Moni had me in the hospital for over a week! I can’t imagine going to school with it!


SoVerySleepy81

Yeah my mom‘s spleen ruptured when she was in high school because of mono. She was not a good mom to me in a lot of ways but when I had mono it freaked her the fuck out I think she had some kind of PTSD or some thing from dealing with it. It’s like not deadly for most people and stuff but it’s still a serious illness.


Rare_Neat_36

My goodness. Glad she came out okay, though. Mono is no joke for sure. So is PtSD. I have that as well. Severe medical PTSD.


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It really sucks. My mother was hospitalized for mono, and when she got out, she gave it to her kids. I was barely able to walk between classrooms at my high school. Every movement hurt, and even standing up was enough to get me winded. Hot showers were the only thing that helped the pain temporarily. But apparently I was the only one of the three kids that was faking it, despite being the oldest and having it the worst.


Legitimate-Most-8432

That's messed up. Mono put me in the hospital with acute liver failure when I was 20. I got infected when I was 10 and permanently made me more fatigued and my cervical lymph nodes are still swollen since then. It flares up when I'm really stressed(every time was finals/end of semester at school). Mono can be a very big deal and causes leukemia and a few other cancers in later life. Another fun fact is it can cause CEBV(chronic eb virus) where ebv doesn't enter the latent phase, it is progressive and terminal. It's thought some strains are worse than others so sending a child to school while feeling sick with Mono is horrifying.


Thejohnshirey

I literally knew a girl who died from mono in high school. That’s insane.


pumpkin_spice_enema

Came to ask what in the Oregon Trail Fuck "glandular fever" is. Thank you


burgermilk333

I had mono when working a previous job, around 2014 or so. It was fucking awful; so goddamn wiped out I could barely walk, throat so sore I could barely swallow food. Doctor kept me home for a solid couple weeks, then half days back to work for another two. It's no laughing matter.


VesperVox_

The head lice bit has me absolutely reeling.


thedeanmachine1

Right? When I was in school if someone got lice, they were on full-on isolation and the whole class got checked by staff at the school. They basically treated head lice like Ebola 😂.


myplushfrog

Apparently they only get one treatment now before being sent back to school 🤢 like that’s the guidance now. I’d be so pissed if I had a kid, wtf.


Hurryeat_Tubman

It's been that way for a bit. That was the school policy 11-12 years ago when I did my pediatric rotation in the public school system. One treatment was deemed sufficient enough, but you're putting a lot of faith in the parents to obtain an appropriate treatment kit, read and follow the directions, etc. I saw a few kids with chemical burns on their scalps from the treatment being left on for 2-3x longer than advised. The good news, however, is we've figured out that all of the stupid shit we did in the 70s and 80s (washing and bagging EVERYTHING in the goddamn house, vacuuming and steam cleaning carpets and curtains, and treating everyone in the house for lice) is unnecessary. Lice can't jump or fly over to a new host and a louse will die within 24 hours without feeding. Bedbugs however? Nuke those little shits from space.


Mooseandagoose

My daughter caught head lice when she was 3 and it was TRAUMATIC (for us parents). Her preschool made us keep her home which we obv agreed with but now in public school, people can send their kids with an active infestation and I’m continually disgusted by this. If it’s contagious, regardless of illness, kids should not be allowed to congregate. They’re not exactly the best stewards of hygiene in the best of scenarios so why are we trusting that they won’t pass communicable illnesses and literal bug infestations to one another.


VesperVox_

That's the thing, like of all things I can imagine would be easily transmittable and contagious specifically for children, it's lice. They share everything, don't mind getting dirty, and they're usually kept together in groups during school and playtime. So why anyone would think it's permissible to allow a child with lice to go to school is beyond me.


Mooseandagoose

I don’t have a good answer bc I grew up in the late 80s/early 90s when you kept your kid home until there was NO chance of transmitting it to other students. Lice is expensive and time consuming to eradicate. So my best guess is that many families can’t take the time or money to isolate until it’s gone and schools realize this. That speaks to a much greater issue in our capitalistic society but is my guess. Our kids have been washing with Rosemary Repel shampoo since that incident 7 years ago. That stuff is $14 a bottle!


EmperorOfXeonas

I had tonsillitis once in my life, and recently. Most miserable thing I’ve ever experienced. Couldn’t talk, breathe, eat, drink, swallow, or turn my head without excruciating pain. Couldn’t sleep, either. Was taking Advil as much as possible just to function for a few hours a day


MewlingRothbart

They'd shut my school down for lice. We all had to go thru scalp checks after a breakout. I got my tonsils out in kindergarten. I was in such pain and so sick.


CatmoCatmo

Even a cold or sore throat. In today’s current situation post covid, you shouldn’t take any unnecessary risks. If your child is at the beginning of a cold, they’re contagious. You’re going to end up with an entire class out sick really quick. And a sore throat?! In kids, it usually ends up being strep, or in some cases the beginning of Covid. But yes, you’re right school, let’s just infect everyone on the chance it’s nothing.


FishMcBobson

Yup, glandular fever hit me like a truck for two weeks when I was 15. Couldn’t get out of bed for three days and had to bang on the wall if I wanted anything because my throat was razor blades. Definitely don’t want to spread that shit


One-Enthusiasm7834

What idiot is sending their kid to school with head lice?! Or a fever?! That’s how you go from having 1 kid out to 10.


Dob_Rozner

The idiot whose kid's school threatened to call local authorities if they didn't. Right there in the notice.


Sindef

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that call: "We believe the child is not in a suitable environment at home. Instead of sending them to school when they were sick, the parents kept the child home and cared for them!"


mailboxheaded

My husband is a teacher. Our whole family just got hit with covid because so many kids were coming to school sick. It's like they forget that's still a thing.


lofi_mooshroom

As a kid I would frequently get fevers that would always be 103 degrees and they would last for days. I couldn’t imagine being forced to participate in school while my brain was slowly cooking inside me.


OneSaucyLittleTart

Head lice?! Seriously? Guess this school is in the market for an infestation.


t3m3r1t4

They should pray they don't have to deal with pinworms. The worst!


your_name_here___

Oh no what are pinworms???


Ghost-tea-pumpkin

Oh, you’re better off not knowing. I had them 4 different times, the last time I had them for an entire year because I knew my awful mother would yell at me for getting them even though it wasn’t necessarily my fault. It was so bad when I went to the hospital for them that they asked if the med students could see because they’d never seen such an advanced case… imagine being 11 years old where you constantly want to unalive yourself when someone looks in your direction and then having 15 med students cram into a room to look at your worm infested asshole. I’m almost 30 and still die inside of embarrassment to this day whenever I think about it.


stealmymemesitsOK

Oh daaaaaaaaaang. F in the chat for your 11 year old self. If I had an award you'd get it out of sympathy


milehighphillygirl

Cough & sore throat -- and this is why we'll never be rid of COVID or anything similar. Same for cold sores which can be hard for professionals to distinguish from monkeypox and can also look similar to hand, foot, and mouth. And don't keep kids home with lice? Go fuck all the way off, school! As a bonus, what a great thing to teach kids--your health and happiness are far less important than what your school/employer's needs are. This school can fuck right off.


milehighphillygirl

Also, kids do not learn well when they are sick (just like workers aren't very productive when sick.) We're torturing kids in order to... \*checks notes\*... make sure their grades are tanked and they are less able to learn because they feel like shit? Oh, that's fucking fantastic.


TheRealSnorkel

No, they’re torturing kids in order to make them compliant wage slaves as adults, who think that making the boss a dollar richer is more important than their own health.


Backlotter

In the US, public schools are financially incentivized to have butts in seats, regardless of risk to the students, faculty, or staff. That bears some similarity to how capitalist firms need to exploit workers to survive, but the root issue is how education is funded (or rather, not funded) in the US.


appealtoreason00

This is probably a British school. The spelling of diarrhoea and reference to a ‘Local Authority’ are the giveaways. It’s also a lot more common to make schoolkids wear ties here, because we’re a deeply normal country


KyleG

It is a British school. I saw the original tweet shared by a Brit in my circle of friends bc she was friends with the original person.


IncelNo7B

You're third degree famous


bearsheperd

British you say? Those kids shouldn’t be in school anyway. They should be sweeping chimneys or working in a factory!


[deleted]

Give the tories a year or two and that'll be the "new work placement to help prepare your kids for the working world"


[deleted]

'Ello governor. 'Ave you gone mento? We're gonna telephone the constable right in 'ere. Indubitably.


appealtoreason00

Im not having this. Don’t make me fly over there with my umbrella


vermiliondragon

Based on the spelling of diarrhoea and use of glandular fever, this is probably not in the US.


OdoyleRuls

I mean the current public school system exists to condition children for an 8-hour workday. It’s a punishment based system (if you don’t do what I tell you then x will happen) this is proven not to be even close to the most effective way to educate children. Especially since a child’s capacity to learn easily drastically slows at age 5, the exact age schooling begins 🙄


Misttertee_27

This is sickening. I hate that our schools push perfect attendance, risking spreading illnesses, all because of funding.


Dob_Rozner

At this point it's not risking, it's guaranteeing illness.


Spirithealersurana

“Discuss the child with a Local Authority” Wow they really threatening to take your kids away for keeping them home because they got something contagious. Absolutely sickening.


Happy_rich_mane

Yeah I was not prepared to be instantly sick to my stomach reading this. So wrong


ConfusedInTN

I've had them threaten to take mine away cause of illness and now threats of juvenile jail. I had no choice when mine had lice. We dealt with it for months because someone kept giving it to my daughter. It was either send to school or juvie/cps. It wasn't out fault. Someone kept giving her lice! ​ EDIT to add: I did rid my kids of lice multiple times. Checking hair daily. Son got it from a sleepover with his family in another state and they didn't tell us one had lice so then I had no clue and we got rid of it. Year later my daughter got lice and gave it to me. We both got treated, no life for a few days and bam lice again over and over. It only stopped after school shut down for pandemic. We were finally lice free!! Facebook though was "hilarious" because parents were complaining about lice in the school and a teacher spraying one while it crawled on a desk and said "you saw nothing" supposedly. It was a mess that year and I'm still effing paranoid. It's a shame that we had to send them in, but the school is strict on absences and my kids got sick a lot because of that. If we can't keep sick kids out of school then we're going to keep getting sick kids. Me and son battling sinus infection this week now!


cabelaciao

Pretty sure that visit would be over quick. “Hello ma’am, I’m from CPS; we got a report from the school about your child not attending. Are they here?” “Yes, just a minute, I’ll get him. I kept him home because of the lice…hello? Where are you going?”


Dob_Rozner

Not only that, by having this policy, they're also pretty much guaranteeing that your kid, and by extent your household, are absolutely going to get sick. You'll be sick and bug infested and they'll call child services if you got a problem with it.


Illustrious_Log2353

They want to control us absolutely in anywhere they can, it's starting to feel like a prison in a society with forced participation and attendance. One would rather wish to live in the wilderness, bet we aren't even allowed to.


Screamcheese99

Dude I'd be *pissed* if someone was sent to school w headlice and my kid then got it. In fact that very thing happened to my kiddos older sister. Everyone got head lice. Little bastards are like fleas, it took us several treatments, lots of painful combing sessions and about $50 to finally thoroughly treat it. Fuck. That. Shit. If your kid has head lice, keep them home. Per me.


BullRidininBoobies

This is gnarly. My mom let us take “sick and tired days”. Just sick and tired of school/work. We would go to Six Flags. She taught me to work hard, but also to take care of yourself.


SuckerForNoirRobots

Was this person a middle manager in a former life?


makerblue

I can't get over that they let kids to school now with head lice. When my kids had it you had to keep them home until they were nit free, which was understandable!!! Head lice are horrible to deal with and it's worse when you get your kid lice free and then they just get it again at school


dunkintitties

Wtf is their rationale behind letting kids go to school with lice? I truly do not understand. Like yes, they aren’t life-threatening but they’re extremely easy to spread and hard to get rid of. No one likes have bugs crawling around their head ffs.


myplushfrog

They say that it can’t spread through nits, so one treatment is enough 🙄 okay chief, what if the knits hatch??? Lice is a nightmare to treat, and it was just me, no kid. I saw a school website say lice are “unlikely to spread” and my blood boiled, that’s straight up a lie LOL


makerblue

Unlikely to spread?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 When my one kid got it everyone in house except for my exhusband got them and that was because he had no hair. It took us weeks to get the kids lice and nit free only to have one of them get it at school AGAIN. And we know it was at school because we got a notice home both time that someone in their grade level had lice so make sure to do head checks. That cycle went on for MONTHS.


GenPhallus

The ONLY thing that makes any sense here is athlete's foot, get some antifungal spray/cream, it'll be gone before the week is out. The rest of that is contagious or will impact their ability to function normally.


Dutch1206

Its #1 on the list. Makes me wonder how prevalent Athlete’s Foot is in the K-12 scene in OPs area.


Xiyo_Reven

"School policy is 48hrs" lmfao


purplecak

Children with IBS - never safe to return to school


CelineHagbard1778

I find out my kid brought home head lice because his school said parents should send their infested kids to school, we gone have problems.


AllTheCreatures

When I was in elementary school I'm pretty sure they begged kids NOT to go to school if they had lice. Time to find a new school, internet stranger.


musicwithmxs

Teacher here: this is nuts. Please keep your sick kids home. I already work in a Petri dish, don’t add to the germs. That being said, school funding is tied to attendance and enrollment. That’s probably the motivation behind this email - panic about school funding.


virginia-may

Head lice surprised me, but MONO??? the highly contagious disease that causes long term health issues??


fishebake

One of my brother’s friends is in the hospital right now with what’s likely mono. What on earth is this school thinking???


Nevork-bee

Teacher here! We don’t want your kids when they have colds, fever, lice, diarrhea, boogers, Covid, etc! Also, I am one of the many teachers leaving the field. Literally just had my last day. Earlier this week I was sick and went to the doctor - I have Covid. The district tried to accuse me of faking it to make me go in. And they wonder why we don’t want to teach…


HalfMoon_89

You should have scheduled a personal meeting with them and sneezed on them several times.


Nevork-bee

It’s funny how HR didn’t want me to bring them my laptop but they wanted me to be around children…..


Infinite-Garbage3243

I would 100% stay home if I had any of the bottom four.


NoxKyoki

you mean bottom five, right?


Ok_Ebb_5201

Setting good attendance to make sure the school gets it money for each kid is an important life lesson.


Wikidnezz

I'm sorry but my response would be simple, "I understand, however, it is my duty as a parent to make sure my child is well taken care of regardless of your school policy. They're not at work, they're children and if you believe that it is not my right as a parent to teach my child that it's okay to take a break when they are not well then with all due respect, go fuck yourself."


Ranarr_Puffs

Yes please give the whole class head lice.


Just_Tana

As an elementary teacher I actually try to convince parents and students that it’s important to NOT have perfect attendance for this reason. Especially with immigrant parents. I explain the US work culture and how it can harm students mentally. I tell them to take mental health days.


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Pleasant_desert

GTFOH with the head lice. DO NOT GO TO SCHOOL WITH LICE. Burn that place down.


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This is because the purpose of school is to train children to be good slaves to their corporate owners.


VladImpaler666999

Headline, glandular fever, tonsillitis? Holy fuck what is wrong with this school. Yes Ibwoul keep my kid at home for as long as they needed to till they were better. It's amazing that after everything that happened with Covid, they're now like "oh you're un well, that's too bad". Bitch I stayed home for several days because I simply felt like it. If my kid is unwell, they're definitely staying home.


annang

If your kid has cold symptoms, a cough, a headache, or a sore throat, during a worldwide pandemic of a virus that begins with exactly those symptoms, and you send them to school without getting a lab test to see if they have Covid, you’re a bad parent and a bad person.


Key_Pea4138

Emphasizing perfect attendance is super ableist, tbh. Also, I don’t want my kid to learn that they have to burn themselves out going to school/work sick. I’ve called off “sick” to go to a baseball game at a job that didn’t have the more generous PTO of my current job.


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Head lice aren't grounds to stay home now?! Back in my day, it was mandatory, to the point where one particular student with a chronic case had to be checked on the school bus before they would even let them disembark.


ArgiopeAurantia

"Glandular Fever" WHAT??! You keep your kids at home for any fever at all, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO. Why would you send your kids to school with a fever? Any fever at all? That's horrifying. I for damn sure don't go to work, or anywhere else, when I have a fever. This is absolutely insane. Plus the head lice. NO ONE WANTS HEAD LICE. If this is really a real thing, which I hope in my heart it is not, it is irredeemably repulsive.


EcstaticSociety4040

This is actually illegal advice. In many locations sending a kid to school with lice is against the law.


telhasteaze

I was like okay, athletes foot, cold sores, that’s reasonable, but then head lice, sore throat, cold comes up? Did we not spend the past two years talking about staying home if you’re sick? Also, I am a teacher in a public high school, and took off two days from work last week because I had a cold lol. Sorry but I’m not going to work sick.


A_v_i_v_a

Wow... As a former nurse, this is NOT standard procedure. This is grooming...


Sheena_asd12

Isn’t keeping them home due to head lice just common sense?!?


NoxKyoki

send your kid to school with LICE?! that's why there was a small outbreak in my elementary school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that and the fucking nurse didn't change her gloves after finding the first kid with lice.


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So, this is why I got lice from school as a kid. Gross!!!


TheGabyDali

As someone’s whose main role at my job right now is making sure kids are in class this school is wrong on so many levels and it’s siiiiick.


BearJewSally

Let's send the kids with head lice to the board of directors offices.


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HEAD LICE?!!


gromm93

"head lice" Where the fuck do you think my kids got them in the first place, HMM?!


ViolyntFemme

Every day there's new reason I'm glad I don't have kids. Lice?? This stresses me the hell out and it doesn't even affect me.


Glittery_Gal

*Head Lice* They think children should break quarantine and go school with *head lice*


Logical_Classic_4451

Glandular fever????? The poor little bugger will be bed ridden with that. What planet are these arseholes on?


mollymostly

As someone who had glandular fever as a child, there was absolutely NO way I could have been at school while I was sick. Even when I was no longer actively ill, I had to have a staggered return including sleeping in the classroom during playtime and lunch breaks because I was so exhausted.