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05.21.08, 18:05 PM General Topics
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Anyone here go to public school in the late 70s/early 80s -- remember when they used to check your hair for lice all the time with those little paper-covered straws? I still remember the one girl in my class who had lice -- her name was Margo... [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 05.21.08, 06:05 PM Flag
 

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Brandy at my school [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:06 PM Flag
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and that poor girl - she developed early so she was Boom Boom Brandy and had lice - I wonder where she is today - I hope she rocks [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:06 PM Flag
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I went to public school in the 1970s and don't remember ever having a lice check. My mom doesn't remember it being an issue at all [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:07 PM Flag
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np: maybe it was regional - I remember this well from Long Island [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:08 PM Flag
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Oh well that makes sense. I'm from Wisconsin [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:09 PM Flag
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Long Island here - we never had lice [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:12 PM Flag
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how old are you? We always had checks in grade school in the 70s [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:14 PM Flag
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of course. they did that throughout elementary school. I always got all itchy when the nurse came in with her comb. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:07 PM Flag
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this never happened to me. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:07 PM Flag
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OP here- i was in NY -- those paper straws will never leave my memory... [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:08 PM Flag
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I had it twice...I wonder if my classmates remember that about me! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:10 PM Flag
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I don't remember any lice checks at my public schools. I didn't live in NYC, though. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:10 PM Flag
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I went to sleep away camp in the late 80s/early 90s and remember this being a part of check-in (get bunk assignment, deposit money into canteen account, drop any medication with the nurse, and get a lice check!) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:11 PM Flag
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i went to private school and my sisters adn I all got lice. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:12 PM Flag
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OP here: you know what's so interesting to me. The kids at my dc's school don't look down at all on the kids with lice. It's totally matter of fact (oh yes, XX had lice, she'll be back in tomorrow). When I think kids with lice were stigmatized as being dirty when I was a kid. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:13 PM Flag
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I posted that I had it twice. Never really felt stigmatized and I don't think my classmates looked down on me (I got it from one of them, after all). Lice doesn't discriminate. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:14 PM Flag
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I know (my kids have had it twice). But when I was a kid, other kids made fun of children who had lice. Glad that wasn't true in your school. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 05.21.08, 06:16 PM Flag
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