Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Morgan County Schools, Georgia - Lice

You may wonder why I am making a post about this, as lice is very common for kids to get while in school.  However, you have no idea the circumstances behind *why* we got lice to begin with.

I have a strong belief in this house, that I do not care what strangers/teachers/parents/kids believe in as long as it is not forced down my throat.  I want my kids to be able to decide for themselves what to believe.  I also do not care if you believe in the Almighty Spaghetti monster, as long as you keep your crazy contained to your section of the world.  The minute it starts to effect MY household, we are going to have a problem.

I've never had lice before.  My kids have never had lice before.  That all changed, when an outbreak occurred.  I did not even think lice was still a "thing", but boy did my opinions on it all change rather quickly.  Getting lice is considered a rite of passage here, as it happens at least once a year...and if you go an entire year without lice, you are extremely lucky.

As I have stated before, this is a super small town filled with super rich people (~35%) and super poor people (~5%).  Most of them are rich as fuck.  You are either one end of the spectrum or the other.  Otherwise, the rest of the town (the "historic district") is all old people.  Old people make up a vast majority of the town's population (~60%).  So, you'd be surprised that when we were infested...it was not one of the poor kids that were a walking time bomb.  Oh no, it was a rich family and I know exactly who it was.

Kid #2 was about 7 when she infected us all (2nd grade).  Remember, I have 4 kids.  So, we were all infected and it's super expensive and takes a lot of time to get rid of them all due to multiple infestations.  Patient zero in our house is best friends with a little girl what has a mother that does not believe in treating lice.  This same mother also does not believe in anything non-organic, zero candy for her kid (not due to health or allergic reasons), etc.  However, this mother gives her kid cans of Campbell's soup to eat for lunch every day...which is funny, because even the little girl knows her mom does not like "prepacked things" yet her mom gives her "prepackaged soups".

Naturally, as a room parent, this made my job harder.  The little girl was required to have her own special goody bag, with zero assistance from her mother.  The mother demanded that I fashion a special goody bag (as it was only fairrrrr) and then did absolutely nothing to contribute towards the class herself.  This was all due to the mother's belief system, which I did not have a problem with until it started turning into an extremely hypocritical situation OR started to affect us.

I believe I've written about this before.  The first time we were infested this little girl was actively picking the lice out of her hair and storing them in her pocket.  She was running around the school showing them off to her "friends" as something cool.  It was basically a lice show and tell.  None of the kids had any idea what they actually were, and were intrigued by the creatures.  The school tried to call the mother, who refused to answer the phone, and then showed up the nurses office (in front of me) screaming that she refused to use "lice shampoo on her child!" as it was dangerous.  Ooooookkkkkaaaayyyyy......   That started the lice infestation of 2014-15 that would last roughly 2 months.

That brings us to this school year, at the beginning of the school year (Aug 2016)...another lice infestation was found again.  All stemming from the same exact child again.  Surprisingly, the kid was not doing a show and tell this time around.  It's just that her mother was refusing to treat her, and sending her into school anyways.  Color me not surprised, as this is typical for this mother.  For all of her attention she demands for special treatment, she has zero problem being an entitled cunt.

My kids wound up missing 3 weeks of school, due to the fact that we would send them back into school treated and lice free...only to wind up with it again, over and over.  In the end, I wound up "borrowing" the little girl for a play date and treating her myself to get the infestations to stop.  I did try to speak to the mother about it numerous times, and each time was told to basically back off of her "parenting style".  Bitch, your parenting style is messing with my home life.  It ends now.  This infestation lasted about 3 weeks, due to my early intervention and a very awkward time with some kid in my house.  (I was never yelled at for my interference by the mother, and I have a feeling she never even knew what we did)

That brings us to our second winter break (2 weeks ago).  Yes, we have two winter breaks here.  My daughter was scratching her head, and my thoughts went immediately back to the lice.  That shit is expensive to treat and try to get rid of.  Thus, we interrogated the kid and checked her head.

Yup, infested again.  Even the baby (my youngest is 1 yr old) was infested and I had caught it at the tail end of the winter break.  So, that means that during the Valentine's Day party while the kids were getting infected with the flu via Wonder Parent, they were also sharing their lice around willy nilly.  So, my kids were running around with lice and the flu.  Great.

We have been treating it every day ever since.  You may ask why, and I will tell you why.  The same little girl and her mother decided to return to school, so that her daughter does not miss any days and gets an award at the end of the year...and told my daughter that her mom "just treated hers last night".  Meaning, the bitch waited until the very end of winter break to treat this girl and then sent her to school with lice eggs and most likely still lice in her head.

Add on, the mother did NOT treat the little girl.  The mom didn't even comb her fucking hair and pick any out.  My daughter asked her if she used the store or doctor stuff (I know real specific here).  The little girl responded that her mom used vinegar in her hair.  That was it.

WHAT THE FUCK!

Let's be clear here.  Vinegar will NOT kill lice.  I know, we tried this.  All it will do is loosen the nits on the hair shafts to make them easier to get out.  It won't actually kill them.  Thus, you need to actually use the lice shampoo or some other method to kill them.

So, this mother put some fucking vinegar on her kid's head and sent her back into school that way.  Numerous times.  Naturally, all of the kids kept getting re-infested due to this kid and her fucking granola mother.  That means, that MY house has been dealing with the now SECOND lice outbreak in less than a year, because this woman is a piece of shit parent.

I will not be taking this girl into my home to treat her again as I did last time.  We are in the process of moving clear across the country to escape people like this.  It's one thing to be frugal (this woman is not), it's another thing to cost other parents hundreds of dollars because of your shitty ideals.  For god's sake, how can you watch your kid scratching herself so much and do nothing about it?  At what point do you suddenly realize that "hey guess the vinegar isn't working"?!

All of this because she did not want her daughter to miss school for some shitty award, and because she refused to use "pharmaceuticals" on her kid.  Grow the fuck up.  I'm half tempted to send her the receipts for all of our many lice treatments (and there have been many) that total up to over $400 in our house alone.

Welcome to the South, y'all, where lice is a constant problem due to stupid parents.

PS. Before you feel sorry for this little girl, she's a brat and typical "mean girl".  My daughter is best friends with her, but in the typical "girl best friend" relationship.  Meaning, they are only friends when the girl want to insult or degrade my daughter behind her back and when it benefits the other little girl socially.

Currently, the little girl has been ripping on my kid to other kids about how having a different last name from her father (I kept my name in the marriage and gave it to the kids) is not normal and having two dads/one mom is "weird".  Yeah, it's called a divorce you little shit stain.

But ya know, that is more of her mother speaking through her.  Her mother and I do not get along, especially after the last lice outbreak and all of the issues she caused me being a room parent.  (Her special snowflake needed her own special goody bag)  They use their kids to attack people, just like they did in Utah.  Very high school childishness.  Grow up.

But ya know, my daughter is a social butterfly and really nice.  So, she won't actively call her out on her bullshit.  She just comes home in tears randomly, and every other day you can hear us screaming "Fuck Ava!  We're moving soon, just fuck her!"

So, fuck Ava and fuck her mom.  Both of them are assholes.