News Monkey: Head Lice

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Stockton council's answer to an epidemic of head lice in its schools represents a perceptible shift in attitude toward a problem we have long been told is nothing to be ashamed of: they want to prosecute the parents of lousy children Nor does this approach threaten to make lice a class issue, since rich parents will be able to afford fancy lawyers to get them off, it ignores a more simple and obvious solution to the problem: steroids