When to Keep Your Child Home From School

Students should not attend school in the following circumstances:

• Signs of severe illness, including fever, irritability, difficulty breathing, crying that doesn’t stop with the usual comforting, or extreme sleepiness.
• Diarrhea (3 or more episodes of loose stools in 24 hours). A child must be diarrhea free for 24 hours without the use of diarrhea suppressing medications.
• Vomiting two or more times in 24 hours, unless a physician feels the cause of vomiting is not an infectious disease and the child is in no danger of becoming dehydrated. A child should have one or two meals without vomiting before returning to school. Your child may be sent home from school for vomiting one time.
• Temperature of 100 degrees or above. A child must have temperature below 100 degrees for 24 hours before returning to school without taking a fever reducing medication.
• Questionable rash until a physician has determined the rash is not caused by an infectious disease.
• Known communicable disease must be treated for the appropriate amount of time as directed by a physician.
• Recommendation of a physician or school nurse.

If a child becomes ill while at school, faculty and staff do their best to isolate him or her and contact parents promptly to pick up their student.

Please note: If you would like your child to receive oral nonprescription medication at school, such as Tylenol, Advil, Benadryl, Tums, Cough Drops and Throat Strips, you must bring the medication to the school nurse and complete the Parent/Guardian Request Form. Click here to review the medication policy guidelines.

Learn more about efforts in Frisco ISD to prevent the spread of disease.