Close encounters of the MLC kind

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maybe they couldn't get to the store
or didn't have money to buy the stuff
and
had to work today

i mean
i would be po'ed if my son were in that school

but i worked lower income schools before
and
that happened a lot

Oh, I understand. But there are alternative methods, and I sent home that information with the children yesterday. There are reasons, and then there are excuses. I just know that if my child had lice I'd shave her head if necessary! But then, that's just me....

would your daughter be screaming and crying?

and if they never dealt iwth it before, maybe they really believed the shampoo would just do it alone

(and could it???)

good to be a boy

and what if you have tight curly hair? or a lot of kids ?

Yes, she definitely would be screaming and crying. And probably, me too.

I sent home very explicit instructions on how to treat their children and their homes--it's essentially a public health requirement to prevent it from spreading to other children, whose parents then call the school and yell and cuss because their child picked up lice in school.

Lice prefer caucasian hair, because of texture as well as oil-base styling products often used on tightly curled or kinked hair. Which is not to say that African-American kids don't get head lice, but it's much less frequent than their non-african american counterparts.

Yeah, if you have a lot of kids you're in a world of hurt.

I really don't mean to sound non-compassionate about this. I understand there are a variety of life factors going on at once. However, I tend to have a tad more compassion for the child who gets dissed at school for having repeated lice infestations than for their parents. I'm also responding from a place of getting cussed out by at least two sets of parents (because it's my fault?!) because their child missed the bus and they had to drive the 5 minutes to pick them up (that's how soon they got there!) or got lice at school (obviously they couldn't have gotten them anywhere else) and treatment is expensive and by god they're entitled to some assistance to purchase the products. This is after I sent home a free box of treatment but they didn't bother to check their child's backpack or read the note I sent home. I realize they're upset and overwhelmed and I'm just the convenient target--but ya know, I'm really tired of being that target for so many people!!! And what are they teaching their children who are listening to this exchange?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

jeepers