Home is the best place for a child who is ill. If your child is sick with a diagnosed communicable disease, please notify the school as soon as possible. This notification will greatly assist others who, due to medical reasons and/or treatments, have weakened immune systems and may require immediate and specialized care.
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DO NOT SEND A SICK STUDENT TO SCHOOL
DO NOT SEND A SICK STUDENT TO SCHOOL
If your student's symptoms are related to a chronic condition, please contact the school nurse. Unless otherwise instructed, if your student's illness requires antibiotics, the student must have been on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.
If your student's symptoms are related to a chronic condition, please contact the school nurse. Unless otherwise instructed, if your student's illness requires antibiotics, the student must have been on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.
Please read the information below to know when students should be kept/sent home and when they can safely return.
Fever: Temperature greater than 100.4 degrees
May return when: No fever for at least 72 hours (3 days) without the use of fever-reducing medicine.
Skin rash or open sores
May return when: Rash is gone; sores are dry or can be completely covered by a bandage; or with orders from doctor to school nurse.
New Cough illness
May return when: In general, when symptom-free for 72 hours (3 days). If pertussis (whooping cough) is diagnosed, after taking a 5-day course of prescribed antibiotics, or when cleared for return by local public health authority. If COVID-19 is diagnosed, with orders from public health authority.
Diarrhea: 3 loose or watery stools in one day OR newly not able to control bowel movements
May return when: Symptom-free for 48 hours (2 days).
Vomiting
May return when: Symptom-free for 48 hours (2 days).
Headache with stiff neck and fever; OR with recent head injury
May return when: Symptom-free or with orders from doctor to school nurse.
Jaundice: (new) yellow color in eyes or skin
May return when: After orders from doctor or local public health authority to school nurse.
Red eyes or eye discharge: yellow or brown drainage from eyes
May return when: Redness or eye discharge is gone OR with orders from doctor to school nurse.
Acting different without a reason: Unusually sleepy or grumpy OR acting differently after a head injury
May return when: After return to normal behavior OR with orders from doctor to school nurse.
Major health event, like surgery OR an illness lasting 2 or more weeks
May return when: After orders from doctor to school nurse.
Student's health condition requires more care than school staff can safely provide
May return when: After measures are in place for student's safety.
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