Advice for middle class parents

[LocalTeacher]

Check your childs hair for nits.

If your child is male keep their hair short

They will be less likely to catch/pass them

(And they will probably thank you in later life)

Dont be too posh to wash folks

[millsa]

why is this adresses to middle class parents only? :)

[Otta]

Cos working class boys have skin 'eads innit!

[Bellenden Belle]

What a ridiculous post.

It is well known that nits prefer clean hair. Awful that a teacher can demonstrate such ignorance and prejudice.

Poor show.

[Otta]

I think they were suggesting that middle class hippy types tend to let their kids hair grow more.

Not exactly put across in an appropriate way though.

[sillywoman]

I sincerely hope you're not a teacher at either of my kids' schools' locally. This post suggests you carry some offensive attitudes and assumptions with you. Not good.

[lameduck]

i had nits as a teenager and i had them not so long ago

result of cuddling lots of kids and i am a toff !!!!

[LocalTeacher]

In my experience parents from poorer families make sure that their children are clean and well presented

Some families paticularly well off ones prefer to let their children grow wild

I know nits like clean hair bellenden belle (especially long hair)

they dont like being washed in nit repellent shampoo tho

[Ondine]

In my experience there are some fantastic teachers in our local schools. People who would not dream of the sort of stereotypes and assumptions at play here. Is this just designed to provoke.....?

[LocalTeacher]

It was designed to stop the spread of nits, if it provokes parents to check and clean/cut their childrens hair then it will have done its job.

[Ondine]

I wonder why the DoH doesn't employ you - what else do you advise on? Surely you could eradicate the norovirus with your well informed, shoot from the hip approach?

[oimissus]

so it's fine for girls to have longer hair but not boys? If nits prefer longer hair shouldn't the advice be for both boys AND girls to have shorter hair? Or do you just have some objection to boys with longer hair? Boys should be boys and girls girls, is that it?

[Pickle]

LocalTeacher Wrote:

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> In my experience parents from poorer families make

> sure that their children are clean and well

> presented

> Some families paticularly well off ones prefer to

> let their children grow wild

This is easily the biggest piece of bollocks I've ever read on this forum. Whether you are trying to provoke some kind of weird nit-related class debate or not, you have made me laugh. I'm off to decide whether I fit into the clean, well presented children poor family set, or the children running wild, long haired, nit-ridden middle classes...

[KatsuQueen]

This is hilarious! Unfortunately I am in the "subset" of dirty badly presented children with snot covered clothes and no money either, hahahaha!

[amydown]

Oh dear. Would you be happy to post these kinds of statements under your real name? Do you think your anti middle-class (or any sections of the society for that matter) attitude would be acceptable to/ tolerated by the parents, pupils and colleagues at your school? I dare you to share your thoughts with them in person. I really hope you are not a teacher.

LocalTeacher Wrote:

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> In my experience parents from poorer families make

> sure that their children are clean and well

> presented

> Some families paticularly well off ones prefer to

> let their children grow wild

> I know nits like clean hair bellenden belle

> (especially long hair)

> they dont like being washed in nit repellent

> shampoo tho

[LocalTeacher]

Ondine if everybody washed their hands properly after using the toilet the noro virus would be short lived.

Oimissus its upto you how you dress your child, im not suggesting all boys and girls should have crew cuts , but if your child has long hair you need to be extra vigilant for nits.

[Monkey]

Shouldn't you be working instead of posting, LocalTeacher?

[LocalTeacher]

Amydown i sincerely hope that parents of the children i teach read this and check their childrens hair

i fail to see how my statement was anti middle class , im helping the middle classes

No need to thank me

[Ondine]

Sent all the middle class kids home to get their hair combed

Working class kids are singing a medley from Oliver and practising their pickpocketing skills

[Jessie]

funny, primary school i went in was full of poor kids with short hair and nits was a common problem. I have no money, am a hybrid of classes and an have a son with wildish longish hair who's never had nits. Can't see what social class has to do with it whatsoever, unless it's a new breed of discerning deli-loving biters.

[verds]

Haaaa, love it.

Nice work, LocalTeacher. I hope you're not really a teacher - I wouldn't want my long-haired children picking up your disgraceful apostrophe crimes.

[lameduck]

are there any middle class out there?

most of us are working class paupers

with nits

what about bed bugs do we paupers get these?

i know we get mice etc

and really unlucky ones of us get cockroaches

[simonethebeaver]

I hope you're enjoying yourself, 'localteacher'!

Nits preferring clean hair is an utter myth though.

[Jessie]

yeah, i got nits at uni when i had dreadlocks! dirtiest hair ever. Nits like blood, hair not so much.

[JulieP]

I comb my Daughter's long hair with a nit comb once a week and use tea tree oil. It has not and will not stop her getting nits - although I might notice them sooner? Not sure if this makes me middle class.

On the same note washing hands after using the toilet will not completly erridicate norovirus as there are many other possible methods of transmission.