A Clay County mother is calling for accountability from her child’s school after her daughter contracted pinworm infections twice within two months.

Alisha Monroe, a parent of a child who attends Argyle Elementary, said she was told by the school principal that parents would not be notified about the infection, and that if she wanted other parents to be informed, she’d have to do so herself.

Pinworms are highly contagious parasites, and Monroe believes her daughter contracted them at Argyle Elementary. Despite treating her daughter with medication after the first infection, the child was reinfected a few weeks later.

“I took her to the doctor again. And I was just furious that I knew exactly where she got it from,” Monroe said.

She added that she tried to contact the school administrat

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