Saturday, May 1, 2010

If a nursery school in the uk discovers that a child has headlice.


If a nursery school in the uk discovers that a child has headlice.....?
is it acceptable for them to phone the parent and insist they collect the child? This happened to my sister today, and when she went to pick up her little girl who is only 2 years old they had sat her at a table alone in the corner painting, whilst the other kids played together. Isnt this a little humiliating and unnecessary? Whats worse is that they said that my sister will still have to pay for the session, and when she got home she looked at her daughters hair and there were NO lice? what should she do?
Toddler & Preschooler - 2 Answers
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When my daughter was in Nursery 3 years ago, I discovered headlice and went in to inform them of it. They looked at me as if I was mad and said that yes there were a few kids who had it and that was the perks of their job getting headlice. I hadnt been informed about the other children getting it - I thought you at least got a letter telling you to check your children. So in answer to your query it seems like a very extreme reaction to a very common occurrence amongst children. If they had noticed the headlice theres a good chance it had been in the childs hair for a few weeks so segregating her would have made no difference. Your sister needs to go and talk to the manager and other parents and find out what is going on.
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contact your health deptment or better yet go there and have them give you a letter stating there is no headlice in her hair that's they only way the school(nurse)will pay any attention to you or your daughter school nurse's are not real nurse's they health dept one's are if the school nurse continues report her to health dept
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