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32 | During the course of investigation, LPA interviewed 5 staff members and 2 parents. LPA did not interview children due to children being nonverbal.
During the staff interviews, Staff 1 (S1) stated, the facility protocol when a child has lice is, that staff call the parent, of the infected child and ask them to pick up the child and do treatment. The staff tell the parents to treat the child and make sure there isn’t anything alive before they return to school. Staff would then double check what rooms the child was in and start cleaning and laundering everything. Staff would also notify parents through the app. Staff would also check the other children. On August 3, 2023, a staff did discover that a child in Preschool B classroom had lice. The child was sent home and other children were checked. A letter was sent to parents on the app notifying them and staff were instructed to check other children and launder and sanitize everything in the classrooms. Staff 2 (S2) said When a child is found to have lice, they are sent to the office, the child gets checked for the lice and then get sent home. Staff then launder everything, and staff clean and sanitize and spray everything down, vacuum. Then the admin send a letter letting parents know. One child got lice in the summer and their parents took them home that same day. As far as S2 knows no other parents reported their child contracting lice from the one child at the facility. Staff 3 (S3) disclosed the procedure for lice is, the facility send the child/children home and staff clean up the rooms and do all the sanitizing and all that. As far as a child recently having lice, S3 stated, a child from the infant classroom was sent home out of precaution. As far as S3 knows, that child did not have it but because S3’s student’s sibling had lice, it was decided that the siblings be sent home to out of precaution.
Staff 4 (S4) says, “It is S4’s understanding the procedure for lice is that the infected child immediately gets sent home and parents/staff are notified. Staff then launder and bag everything and disinfect everything. Sometime in August a sibling of my student’s had gotten lice. Out of precaution my student and the other sibling were sent home as well.” S4 did not hear of any other children getting lice and does not feel any other children were exposed because S4’s student did not get it even though S4’s student’s sibling did. Staff 5 (S5) disclosed that staff were told that a child cannot be sent home unless there are live lice.
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