It is normal that with the return to school, the lice also return. At this time, as on other occasions throughout the school year, alerts arise in schools for cases of pediculosis detected in the classrooms of our children. In many cases parents are called to remove the infested child from class.
The school intends in this way not to waste a minute in preventing the spread spread quickly as if it were a massive invasion, but Can children be sent home with lice?
It is to discriminate against the child
For a moment I put myself in the skin of that poor child who, without eating or drinking it, is pointed with his finger for having lice.
The poor boy will have been detected by scratching his head, or having checked him (although if they start to check child for child every day there would be no classes). That means that there may be more children in class also infested, but since they have not scratched or maybe they missed them when they checked, they have saved themselves from carrying the "I have lice" sign.
I find it terrible to make a child feel bad for something alien to him that he has not been able to avoid. I think violates your right to privacy expose it in public and should not be a cause for shame. Children can be very cruel sometimes, as the same child who always catches lice will feel humiliated.
Right to schooling
The child has the right to schooling, You can't force a child to go home because they have lice, and less for having nits.
It is believed that three quarters of children with nits are not infested at that time, and children with lice have been on their heads for weeks, so a couple of hours, even a day, is also not significant to produce a contagion.
There is a movement in the United States and Britain known as "No Nit Policy" (No Liendres Policy), which supports the temporary isolation of the child infected by lice or nits until they have disappeared.
However, several associations, including the American Public Health Association, do not systematically recommend not attending school for children diagnosed with lice infestation.
According to Dr. Paula Aguilera, from the Dermatology Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona,
"The student does not have to miss class if he has been treated and the environment has been protected with protective treatment"
If it is detected at school that a child has lice, it should not be sent home, but tell the family to do the treatment before returning to school the next day. It is the parents' responsibility to eradicate their children's lice as soon as it is detected and thus reduce the focus of infection.
A protocol to be followed should also be sent to the rest of the parents in case of detection of pediculosis with preventive measures to prevent the plague from spreading.
One gets on the other side
Of course, there are parents who agree that children with lice should be removed. When you get on the other side and think that this child can infect our child, we don't like anything. Less parents will like to call them to work to find their child who has lice, I say.
You have to be understanding and understand that You can't send a child home because you have lice. The child may feel pointed out, it is a disorder for the parents and it is not an effective solution to eradicate the problem.
