Martin Luther Prep (WELS) Is Lousy With...Lice

NO! LICE! LICE!

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Response to Lice Outbreak

Dear Parents and Friends of LPS, Over the past 24 hours nits (eggs of head lice) have been discovered on (sic) many students’ hair. Our school nurse, school secretaries and staff, and volunteer moms checked students late into the night and will continue to check them today and for days to come. We give thanks to God for their painstaking work. Because of the scope and size of this outbreak the following guidelines will be followed: Students with lice/nits will be excluded from school and should go home (or to a friend’s house) for treatment. If that is not possible, we will treat them here. The medicated shampoo to treat lice will kill any lice and some of the nits (lice eggs). It will not kill all of the nits and they will begin to repopulate in 7-10days. Parents will need to comb or pick out the nits after treatment. Students should have very few, if any, nits left in their hair when they return to school after treatment. The student will be allowed to return to school 24 hours after the first treatment. Please make sure at least 24 hours pass. If your child needs to stay home longer for treatment, laundry purposes, or for any other reason in association with head lice, please e-mail Dean Dolan or Mrs. Krause and your child will be excused from classes. A second treatment will need to be given in 7-10 days. Again, we would encourage students to go home for the second treatment, which should coincide with our mid-semester break. There will be trained people at Luther Prep who will inspect our students’ hair for lice/nits in the coming days and weeks. Regarding homework… If a student is gone for two days or less, the student should talk to the teacher when he or she returns. If a student misses more than two days, he or she will want to contact the teacher. Specific guidelines will be given to the entire student body. Some students, because they live out of state or overseas, were unable to go home and we have taken the proper steps to isolate these students. We are also extremely grateful to the many parents who have taken students into their homes who were unable to go home. Today our maintenance staff is cleaning all the infected dorm rooms, all common areas and classrooms, offices, and buildings. We will continue to work until the campus is thoroughly cleaned. Thank you for your continued patience and cooperation as we seek to stop the outbreak….. In Christ, Matt Crass Luther Prep - President

Lice Outbreak Update

Dear Parents and Friends of LPS, The entire Luther Prep student body has been checked for head lice. Today we had nurses from the Watertown Health Department and Certified Lice Specialist Kelly Addison on campus to comb through the hair of our students. LPS has retained the services of Kelly Addison. Her business is Lice Unexpected. She is highly qualified. You may visit her website at www.liceunexpected.com There you will find Kelly’s credentials along with much information about head lice. Kelly will be in our dorms Thursday evening beginning at 6:00 pm to go through the hair of students who tested positive and went home or to a friend’s house. She will return again on Sunday at 6:00 pm to do the same thing. Should she discover lice or nits (eggs attached to hair), she will be in contact with parents to receive permission from them to give treatment to the student. If there is no evidence of lice/nits, she will make a recommendation to the students regarding a second treatment. Kelly will continue to come to our campus for the coming weeks to check some students until we are quite certain that there are no cases of head lice at LPS. The buildings, class rooms, dorm rooms, all the furniture, etc. have been thoroughly cleaned. LPS offers our sincere thanks to the many parents who housed students who live a distance away. We could not have done it without you. We also are appreciative of the many volunteers who gave of their time to assist us in so many ways. Finally, thank you parents and guardians for your patience and understanding. Moving forward, we feel much more prepared. We pray that the Lord grant us a lice free environment very soon. Cordially in Christ, Matt Crass LPS - President This is not a case of crab lice, but a lupus disorder. --- WELS Pastor Joel Lillo, Appleton has left a new comment on your post "Martin Luther Prep (WELS) Is Lousy With...Lice": Making fun of a lice outbreak at LPS? This is a new low for you. What a sad, strange, little man you are! *** GJ - When I posted "You Don't Own Me" by Leslie Gore, Lillo wrote to say that his  favorite version was by Klaus Nomi, who died of AIDS. This is one of the best little books on pests and diseases. The new title could be "Rats, Lice, and MLC." I have tried giving the Church and Changers a humor infusion, but they do not catch on easily. Their Pharisaical piety only allows them to attack others in solemn tones of self-righteousness.