Sunday, September 14, 2008

Joys of Public School - Maybe we should Home School

So Oliver never tells me anything about school. It has been driving me crazy! Unless I really pry I might get some descriptive answer, but he usually says he forgot what he learned and he had fun. Well that's great that he's having fun I guess, I just wonder if he will learn anything. On Friday he came home and his hair was messy in the back (it was probably from riding the hot bus home with his hood on) but I asked him why his hair was so messy. He then told me his class went to see the nurse and the nurse also fixes hair! Hmmm interesting. He continued to say- ya she uses wooden sticks to fix our hair. What? Weird? I couldn't think of why on earth the nurse would be fixing their hair. A few minutes later after reading through his take home folder from the school I found the answer. LICE!!!! A girl in his class has lice. Great he's only been in school a week and a half and now he is going to have LICE! Hopefully not - if he does I will be so mad. Maybe home school would be better. I would know what he is doing all day and he wouldn't get lice. Except for I'm positive I don't have the patience to teach Oliver - he is always correct and I am always wrong about everything. I doubt he would learn anything - so I guess we'll take our chances with lice and keep him in public schools.

My head itches just thinking about it uhhhhh!

4 comments:

The Playin' Lakins said...

I will keep my fingers crossed that he does not have lice. It is so miserable!!! I would ask your doc, but it might not hurt to buy some of the over the counter lice shampoo and use it ahead of time. But I'm not sure if that's a bad idea, so I would ask your doc first.

Collings Family said...

EEEEWWW! I hate lice! My school used to ALWAYS have outbreaks because they love the humid weather and we had a lot of ..um..is it really bad to say white trash? kids in our school. As soon as you said the wooden stick I knew what you were getting at. I was so paranoid about getting it but never did thank goodness!

Clara used to always say the same thing when she came home from school and it would drive me crazy. I've noticed that if I make sure we all sit down at the dinner table or if she gets some one on one mom time in the evening she will suddenly remember things and tell me. Its like she gets stage fright right when she gets home.

Lund Family said...

Gross!! I am not excited for Bradyn to go to public school, I have already heard horror stories. Oh well, you do what you gotta do right. How are you guys? Looks like you are having fun there. Nate served his mission there in that area that you guys are in. Buffalo was one of his favorite areas.

Ashley and Ezra said...

Oh I remember the days of lice checks in school... ughh! I hope he doesn't get it! But the pictures of his first day are soo cute! Can you believe he's old enough to go to school? Wow, where does the time go?