Lowly louse shakes up board split

So strained and strange are the dynamics on the Kansas State Board of Education these days that it’s worth noting whenever the 10 members break out of their usual voting blocs, even on an issue as minute as head lice. In the end, the board did nothing this week to change the current regulation requiring that affected children stay home until the lice and their eggs are gone — though it sounds like a good case can be made that it’s unnecessarily strict. Still, it was encouraging to see the board’s division defy ideological lines.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

2 Comments

  1. Brian
    Posted October 15, 2005 at 2:48 am | Permalink

    The story confirms what we’ve known for a while now – the BOE are a bunch of nit pickers !!

  2. TRACY
    Posted October 15, 2005 at 6:28 am | Permalink

    First poo-poo in the classroom, and now creepy crawlers!What’s next, vomit on the lunchroom floor (with that pink stuff that the custodian sprinkles on it)?The editors MUST have a daily post quota to be covering yuckie stuff in the schools. Come to think of it, this stuff would be great for “The Colbert Report”.