Do you agree with a school if they search your childs head for lice?

Its embarrassing but schools have the right to check for lice. The school doesn't only have responsibility to your own child but also to the community's youngsters. Some parents have neglected to teach proper body hygiene to their kids, so someone must do the dirty job.

When my kids go back to school, I'm always checking their heads daily for lice and nits and do think it should be the responsibility of the parent to make sure their kids don't have lice. Unfortunately, some parents are much to busy to do this simple task, so they don't do much, except buy the lice treatment shampoo, when the school reports to them that their child has lice, so it don't bother me to much that at least the school is trying to look out for the kids.

Here the parents usually get notice before a check is to be done in the school, so on lice checking day I always go in with each of my children to make sure clean gloves were put on, so far they have been really good about changing gloves with each child they inspect.

If any nits or lice have been found on my children, everyone in the family gets treated that day. So I always have a supply of treatment shampoo on hand, just in case.

I believe that schools should continue to check. This is a public health issue. When they are there and there is a possibility, they should be checked. Think of the opportunity for infestation through out the day.

Hi sam...

I would think the nurses would be the ones to check if they needed too! I know when my son was in grade school there was a family that constantly had lice...They even shaved their daughters head..but they didn't clean everything at home and it kept coming back..

We never had a problem with lice...thank goodness...

I do think if it is suspected that the child would be sent to the nurses office and then they would check and call the parents/guardian...

There is always that chance that it would be passed on from child to child just from the adult who is checking...

I'm really not sure how they do it...

I remember when I was a little girl in elementary school there would be constant lice check ups. I actually got lice from my cousin (I would sleep over a lot). My mom would always be checking us even if it was late at night. Just to make sure we didn't have any lice. I think schools should be allowed to check for head lice. It's actually their responsibility to make sure that the school is lice-free since some kids can get sick from it! I think it only benefits the children, and parents should be grateful that the school cares. If a person wasn't wearing gloves then I'd be furious of course, but most of the schools that check for lice, the nurse does the job. And to my knowledge, nurses have common sense and would know to put gloves on. It is only normal procedure for them.

If the person checking the student for lice takes the proper precautions when checking for lice, then I say all should go well. Usually, the nurse uses disposable combs to check for lice (from what I remember) and throws them after each student. Mind you, they don't check every single student in one day. So the supply isn't going to run low. If life is found, the nurse takes it out of the hair and tapes it with tape to show the student and parent. At least, that's why my nurse did.

No the school should not do that they should just not let the kids with lice go to the school and if they think they have it send them home and tell there parents to check them cause they could spread it to other kids if they didn't wear gloves and that should be for the parents to check . The shcool is to teach they are not a doctor .

I don't have any kids yet but would be ok with this if it was a nurse but would be upset if another parent was looking through my kids head for lice. I woudl not know if they knew what to look for and they could pass it on to my kids by not doing it right . I will check my kids myself when I have kids and hope they never get it but anybody can get it because they seem to really like people with clean hair and my kdis will be clean .

I am grateful that the schools check for head lice and the school my daughter attends when there is a case of head lice they send letters out to all the parents advising them of the potential outbreak, they do not give any names or anything like that. I like that they send out letters because there are certain percautions that you as a parent can take to help prevent your child from getting lice. Like dropping 2-3 drops of Tee Tree oil in your childs shampoo bottle. Serious, that stuff is AWESOME. The few times I have witnessed teachers checking heads, they did have gloves on and also wore a hair net thing. It is the duty of the teachers to teach and protect your child while they are at school. This is a form of protection.

A good hygiene has nothing to do with lice. Teachers should check proper hygiene to students thats their responsibility to ensure good hygiene and helping students to be presentable in the public. Lice is something that is very embarrassing that is why teacher should inform the parents of the students who have lice on their head so that actions will be done immediately..or perhaps a teacher should call for a meeting and talk with the parents about lice.. Lice-Cause from the excessive heat of the son, and lice jumps too fast with another heads that's why i am saying in here that a good hygiene has nothing to do with lice, because lice do not choose heads it just go there and reside there once your child classmate or students has lice with their heads, it spread throughout.

I feel like it is the parent's job to take care of their child. I am also however ok with the teachers checking for lice. The parents have the right to know if there is a problem with the children. I believe the teacher should wear gloves so maybe it is less likely to be spread. I feel however overall it is a good thing for teachers as well as parents to make sure there isn't a problem with lice.