Lice Check Before the School Year Starts

Merrie Radisch has left a new comment on your post "For POB Families Concerned about Bullying":

School is almost here and so will the lice outbreaks! On Tuesday, September 7th from 2 -5 pm I am holding a lice checking event with a professional lice removal company. In an effort to help reduce the number of lice outbreaks in school classrooms, this lice check will provide an avenue for your children and yourselves to be checked by a professional for lice. The check will be conducted in a private setting.

School nurses very often miss head lice and don't get to check the whole school until well into the beginning of the school year. It is too late by then, lice will already spread through the classrooms. In addition the American Academy of Pediatrics has advocated for allowing children with lice to come to school.

If your child has been in contact with other children this summer through camps or other programs or have had contact with children in these programs then they may have come in contact with lice.

Take advantage of this great opportunity. The charge is $10 per head, far less than going to your pediatrician and paying copays.

Start the school year off right! Come on down, get a head check, find out some great information about lice prevention and removal.

When: Tuesday, September 7th
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: 103 Wilson Place, Plainview

Please RSVP to dmradisch@optonline.net or call/text 917-846-4502 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 917-846-4502 end_of_the_skype_highlighting to let me know that you will be attending this event and how many children/adults will be checked or if you have any questions. You may schedule a time but walk-ins are also welcome!

Looking forward to seeing you on the 7th!! Merrie Radisch

For POB Families Concerned about Bullying

We are a group of Plainview-Old Bethpage parents and residents who are
concerned about bullying in our school district. We are a committee that is
working towards making effective changes in this district regarding bullying.
We have seen evidence of bullying from our kindergarten age children all the
way up through high school. There are various forms of bullying. It can be
physical, emotional, verbal and the newest form; cyber-bullying. There are
children who perpetrate the bullying, children who are being bullied, children
who are bystanders to the bullying and children who are affected indirectly by
these events. Whether we realize it or not we are all affected. You may not even
realize that you or your child has a story of bullying to tell.
The Committee for POB Families Concerned about Bullying is hosting a
bullying forum on Thursday, September 28th (details to follow). Our goal for
the forum is to communicate with the POB school district and our community,
the seriousness of bullying in our district. Our early goal is to initiate a positive
dialogue between the community and the school district personnel.
We need your help as parents, children and residents of this community.
We
now know that there are a lot of stories of bullying that have gone untold and
unheard. We are asking parents and children to tell us their stories so that they
may be presented at the forum. If your story is not to be used at the forum it
will be compiled and submitted to the district with all the other stories of bullying so that your
voice can be heard. Stories can be shared via email, written letters, video, art or
however you or your child would feel most comfortable. All communications will
be kept confidential and no names in the stories will be exposed publicly. We
would like the district and community to work together to solve this problem.
If you or your child is able to share an experience about bullying, please contact
our committee at: POBconcernedparentonbullying@gmail.com.
Once again all names will be kept confidential.

Thanking you in advance for your support,
POB Families Concerned about Bullying

District Website Survey

Link found on the district website looking for your opinions/input on the use of our district website as they commence construction on the new one.


http://pobschools.schoolwires.net/pobschools/Forms/TakeSurvey.asp?PageNumber=1&SurveyID=34I673K14nl11

Nanny Looking For New Position

This is a personal request, I am friendly with a live in nanny that has been with a family for the last 5 years. The children have outgrown the "need" and she is looking for a new position. I would highly recommend her, as she is really wonderful, trustworthy, and clearly devoted to these two children who will sorely miss her..
Please contact me via a comment (which will not be posted) and I will put you in touch with her.
Sorry to bother anyone who is not interested.  - suzala

Teacher's Planned Field Trip Gone Awry

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "If the Administration Was Doing Their Job....":


The POB 8th grade Graduation trip to Ellis Island today was horrible! Why bother? The buses left 1/2 late. It was my impression (and the kids thought so too )that the children were actually supposed to go up into the Statue of Liberty and learn something. I heard that someone bought the wrong tickets and the kids actually just walked around the Lady and waved. Hats Off to the person who organized this trip. I heard it was the teachers. Oh was it the teachers who got the big raises this year? It was my impression as a parent that the trips were supposed to be for Educational purposes and not fun! I think the BOE needs to review this policy because the only thing educational about this trip today was that my kid came home with a bad sunburn from walking and sitting around outside for 2 hours..doing nothing. There was NO tour of Ellis Island by anyone. Most of the kids did not even know they could go inside the building on Ellis Island. So much for the educational reason and the point of the trip......
What was the point anyway? Can someone clarify this? Maybe when you take the fun away, this is what you get. The Merrick school district took the graduating 8th graders to Citi-Field this year.
Board of Ed and Administrators: Time to regroup and re-think the Field trip policy in the POB schools.....