The stinky kid

[acheuleanhandax]

News article: http://fox2now.com/2013/04/02/tenennessee-girl-sent-home-24-times-for-smelling-bad/In short, a second-grader has been sent home from school dozens of times because she smells so bad that it's disruptive to the rest of her class. Her mother claims she bathes daily and has been cleared medically. Child services has apparently been

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[bestdaywelived]

I bet her mother isn't washing the little girl's clothes. There is a certain, really rank smell that overly dirty clothes have.

I feel awful for this child, although I want to kick her mother for going to the news media. What the fuck is WRONG with that woman?

[audiobiblio]

That's where I'm at with it. I'm sorry, but SOMETHING is amiss here. If this were my kid, I'd be doing everything I could to fix the problem and it doesn't seem like the mother is doing that. I have an 8 year old and while certain parts of her can get stinky when they're not clean (her feet, her hair, etc), she doesn't have B.O. yet and I don't see HOW a child that age would smell so terrible if it weren't for either a health/diet issue or that her house/clothing are disgusting. I could be wrong, but I've been around a lot of kids that age and a situation like this just SCREAMS CPS investigation to me.

[noodledays]

I agree with this, and carrieb's idea of a child advocate being needed to step in and see what can be done. :/

[amyura]

Same.

I have a friend who WAS that kid when we were in elementary school. He was not my friend then-- he had no friends, because he and his sisters smelled so bad, and kids are mean. The issue was that their plumbing was always breaking down. That meant no bathing and no laundry being done. The kids always smelled like a hamper. The school nurse was involved, but there was only so much she could do.

[unconformed]

Some 8 yr. olds do have BO, though.

[bestdaywelived]

Oh kids can definitely be stinky on their own, but to be clear-a-room stinky, I feel like it has to be some sort of neglect on her mother's part. (Not addressing the father because Mom is the one who went to the freaking media.)