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September 10th, 2013, 2:19 PM
#1
Cooties
I don't know what's going on in KISD this year. Here it is just the first few days of the new school year and already my grandkids have come home twice with cooties (lice). This has never happened in our family with 30 years in KISD.
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September 10th, 2013, 2:49 PM
#2
I have not verified this, but have been told that there is a new policy and that policy is no longer to keep students with lice out of school or send them home upon discovery, but rather to simply notify parents/guardians and let them take care of it or not.
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September 11th, 2013, 8:42 PM
#3
Originally Posted by
Dagobert II
I have not verified this, but have been told that there is a new policy and that policy is no longer to keep students with lice out of school or send them home upon discovery, but rather to simply notify parents/guardians and let them take care of it or not.
I sure hope you're wrong! That is a sure-fire way to spread them...are we keeping kids with pink-eye at school also? Maybe measles or chicken pox would be next? 
Lice is pretty much a given for people living in certain areas; when my daughter came home from kindergarten with lice, I did the shampoo and nit-comb routine on the whole family, and although I was told that just washing pillowcases and pillows would be adequate, I ditched them all. I even used the nit comb on my boxer...didn't know if dogs could carry them but I wasn't taking any chances.
Creeping cooties, Batman! You take steps to clear them up and avoid spreading them!
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September 11th, 2013, 9:05 PM
#4
I had a student email me tonight saying he had whooping couch and would miss the next two days. But he needs to make up a quiz to be passing for UIL and could he meet me at 7:30 in the morning to take it!?!?
He said, "I don't wanna get my classmates sick."
I said, "WHAT ABOUT ME!?!?"
No answer.
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September 11th, 2013, 9:30 PM
#5
Well, don't keep us in suspense. Are you gonna give him the test???
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September 11th, 2013, 9:47 PM
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"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
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September 12th, 2013, 12:24 AM
#7
Wear a mask.
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September 12th, 2013, 2:55 AM
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If he's in your AP class, you're all toast anyway. Seriously though, isn't this a reportable disease? Does the clinic know?
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September 12th, 2013, 2:56 AM
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Originally Posted by
Night Owl
Wear a mask.
Don't breathe in, only out.
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September 12th, 2013, 7:39 AM
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If the child has live bugs then yes they can and will be sent home. If they have nits(eggs) then the parent will be notified but the child will not be sent home.
Imagine, by reportable I assume you mean something similar to what you would do for whooping cough or measles? The answer is no, lice is not reportable. CPS doesn't even care if a child has lice. We had a few students about 10 years ago that had lice almost constantly and CPS said there was nothing they could do about that. Eventually the mom wound up shaving the 3 girl's heads. They were in 1, 3 and 5th grades.
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