Lice-a-Roni

A San Francisco school treat!

Comments

[scarshapedstar]

Well, like the article says, the false negatives definitely outweigh the false positives so it's not like sending kids home is actually accomplishing anything.

But the again, the notion of actual results has become somehow vilified when it comes to school policy. I'm thinking of expulsions for taking Tylenol under "zero tolerance" policies, here.

[Legalize]

You do realize that Oakland and San Francisco are not the same city?

[scarshapedstar]

What's next, Legalize? Are you gonna tell us that sometimes the New York Times covers stories that didn't actually happen in New York?

[Phoenix]

Scar,

I think the main reason for sending the kids home is to prevent spreading the lice - which is easy to do. But there is something else. I'm not sure, but the treatment used to be some kind of horrid oil stuff put into the hair that had to be left there for a while. No kid wants to come to school looking like that. Plus, the infestation of lice gets into clothes and all that. It's one thing to send one kid home, another to have to send an entire classroom home. Can you imagine the parent uprising?

The 'zero tolerance' thing can be taken too far. Any kid in our state's system just dumps whatever necessary drugs off at the nurse's office. Plus, all parents sign a waiver for Tylenol, aspirin, etc. Kids can get it any time they want.

[Steel]

'Legalize' is a nitpicker.