She went on to explain the official logic was that because children spend three-quarters of their lives outside school, whole communities should be constantly vigilant, rather than dismiss it as a playground problem. But I can't look for nits when a child scratches, I can't ask their parents to check and I mustn't send out general warnings. But it's not a Welsh policy, this is nationwide. He said it. As any parent knows, nits are picked up at school.
Playgrounds are the perfect transmission points for every kind of bug.
And if the policy is to protect the feelings of struggling parents who haven't the time to check their children's hair regularly, it is a politically correct boomerang which will hit the very people it is designed to protect. If my wife and I, with plenty of time and energy, shudder at the thought of two weeks' shampooing, conditioning and combing, it hangs like a jail sentence over a single mother struggling to rear a family. All of us curse what should be an annoying, but temporary, problem. Instead, it is set to become permanent at our primary school. And if it is endemic there, in no time older brothers and sisters will transfer it to the secondary schools.