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Enjoying the Good Lice: Managing Crisises

by Pauline Davey Zeece
January/February 1991
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The first time I ever saw lice hopping from curl to curl on a small child's head was over 15 years ago. The critters were so small and quick (the lice that is) that I had to blink twice before I could process what I was seeing. And when the realization finally struck me, I felt compelled to shift my weight, to scratch my scalp . . . and quite honestly to exit quickly.

To make matters worse, one of the other teachers who had also never seen lice but who believed that "such things only inflicted impoverished people" had systematically checked the heads of 22 children with the same comb. By the end of the week, the school was involved in a lice crisis of major proportions. Teachers, staff, children, and families had been afflicted and the local pharmacist had become wealthy.

I am pleased to report that the out-break claimed no long term casualties; everyone did survive. In sub-sequent times and other places amidst a lice event, I have been more able to act effectively. I now am actually beginning to control my head scratching. You might say that I am learning from lice, ...

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