When to Keep Your Child Home from School
Fever
If your child is sent home from school with a fever or has a fever the night before school, please keep your child home. A fever is considered any temperature of 100.0 or greater. Your child needs to be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications, such as Tylenol or Motrin, before returning to school.
Head Lice
Unfortunately, during the school year, there will be occasional cases of head lice. This problem should not be a cause for shame or embarrassment because no individual or family is immune. If your child is excluded from school for head lice, treatment with a special medicated shampoo and removal of all live lice are necessary before the student can be readmitted to school. Every family member should be examined, and to avoid re-infestation, it is also important to clean your child's home environment. One day of excused absence will be allowed for each occurrence of lice infestation, not to exceed five (5( days for reoccurring incidents during the school year. Students having persistent problems will be referred to the county attendance office or other authorities.
