This is culturally fascinating to me as schools in India do not consider a lice infestation in any student as a major hygiene issue and raise a hue and cry abou

This is culturally fascinating to me as schools in India do not consider a lice infestation in any student as a major hygiene issue and raise a hue and cry about it (like I presume some western schools do?). They treat it as a personal issue, something that is annoying. Some teacher may inform the parent if they suspect a student has lice, or even offer tips to the affected student on how to deal with it, but they never made a big deal about it or publicised it. It was accepted as one of the things everyone goes through once in a while. That said, there certainly is a light social stigma associated with having lice, and we too have experienced what the author went through while our parents tried to delouse us. I recall someone telling me that even the dangerous DDT was popular 3-4 decades back in my country for such purpose!