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Article: HEAD LICE PROBLEM FRUSTRATING PARENT
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- March 30, 2005
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Sherry Sullins is sick of head lice.
She's tired of staying up nights disinfecting her Floyd County
trailer after her elementary-schoolers come home with the tiny
critters. One or more of her three daughters have gotten lice a total
of five times since November.
Sullins said she marched into Willis Elementary School "raising
Cain" last week and was also told the problem would go away at the
end of "lice season."
The school's principal, Sandra Montgomery, said only two families
in her school of 228 children have had a recurring problem with the
bugs. "We absolutely do not have any type of head lice problem over
and above a lice problem at any other elementary school," Montgomery
said Monday.
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