EMSB disbands volunteer lice-checking committees in schools amid complaints

Checking hair under a microscope. Lice infestations are a problem that no parent wants to deal with. But now, they’ll have to. Some schools within the English Montreal School Board are being forced to disband their parent-run lice committees in an effort to adhere to ministry guidelines. So now instead of kids being sent home with a lice warning, parents are going to have to start nit-picking for themselves. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki explains

• EMSB disbands volunteer lice-checking committees in schools amid complaints