If your child has lice, please alert the nurses’ office at nurses@saintannsny.org and let their close friends know. The nurses’ will email a lice letter to your child’s class notifying them of the case and how to treat lice if detected. If a child is found to have lice at school, we will notify the parents. The child will not be excluded and is allowed to remain in school until they are picked up by their parent or caregiver. However, any student with lice must be treated before returning to school the next day. Please bring the child to the nurse the morning after treatment for a quick check. The nurses can also provide families with resources for lice removal.
The nurses encourage families to make “head checks” part of your weekly routine.
In accordance with the American Academy of Pediatricians, the CDC and The National Association of Nurses, Saint Ann’s is no longer doing class-wide or school-wide head checks for lice.