Headlice
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Sorry for the "scratching heads" outbreak I've just caused....

To be more specific, parents who don't regularly check their kids' heads for these disgusting wee beasties. Thus ensuring that half the kids in the class end up lousy, quite literally. It only takes a few minutes, and if all parents took the responsibility, we could eradicate these beasts.

I just had to splash a tenner on some stinky liquid to leave on my kid's head overnight (yeah I could have got a prescription, but not til Tuesday and there's no way I was leaving it that long).

For the love of humanity, we have eradicated smallpox, we can cure cancer, transplant whole organs, why the hell can they not get rid of this plague once and for all??

Since my eldest started nursery, I have to deal with "visitors" occasionally, despite all the precautions. Long hair tied back, tea-tree shampoo and conditioner, regular "mummy baboon" sessions after school. And yet it keeps on happening. Why? Because there are some manky wee buggers at the school whose parents don't give a flying fuck, that's why.

I don't blame the kids - it's up to the parents. When I was a lass (and all this was just fields etc) the "nit nurse" visited school regularly, and letters went home to ensure something was done. If it kept happening, the parents were hauled into school for a meeting with the Headmaster. That rarely had to happen twice. Now, there's no money to pay the "nit nurse" so it's up to the parents. Some of whom can't be arsed.

Once again, my deepest apologies for the claw marks all over your poor heads, but I feel better for having got this off my chest (and the evil beasts off my kid's head).

Length - couple of millimeters or so ... and very, very dead.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Sun 4 May 2008, 12:06, 3 replies)

it's always the same
some snotty dirtbag of a mother will say "oh, MY child couldn't POSSIBLY have nits!" and will refuse to treat them, despite the fact that you can see the kid scratching fuck out of its scalp. within a week, the whole class in re-infected and you have to start all over again.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 4 May 2008, 12:13, closed)

Mummy baboon sessions
Ha ha ha!

*click*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 4 May 2008, 12:14, closed)

Oh, man...
They did stop inspecting for them, didn't they? I had completely forgotten about that. I had them a couple of times as a kid, and we got inspected every time there was an outbreak...and then at some point in the late 80s we didn't see the inspectors anymore...and now my head itches.
(aeon chicken Like the Millenium Falcon, only slower and noisier, Sun 4 May 2008, 23:21, closed)