Please do not send your child to school if they are not well. Students that become ill during the school day will be assessed by the school nurse and receive appropriate care and supervision in the nurse’s office. A parent or responsible adult listed on the Emergency Information form will been contacted if the student needs to go home.  Your child may return to school once symptoms have resolved without the use of medications for 24 hours.

In accordance with Maine Department of Health and Human Services guidelines from the Center for Disease Control, a child should not attend school or will be dismissed if the student has one or more of the following symptoms:

• Fever: a fever is defined as having an body temperature of 100.0 degrees or higher.

• Diarrhea: frequent passage of watery, loose bowel movements within 24 hours prior to the start of school.

• Vomiting: within 24 hours prior to the start of school.

• Severe coughing: persistent coughing causing child to not be able to concentrate on work.

• Sore Throat: if accompanied by a fever or if child is unable to eat or swallow.

• Ear ache: if accompanied by a fever or if child is in moderate to severe pain.

• Possible conjunctivitis: red eye with mucous drainage. If conjunctivitis is confirmed students need to be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.

• Rash: unexplained rash with fever or if rash is open and draining. Child can return to school once a physician has determined the illness is not contagious and fever is gone.

• Strep Throat: need to be fever free and on antibiotics for 24 hours.

• Impetigo: needs to be on antibiotics for 24 hours, if not on antibiotics lesions should be dry and not draining.

Children with the above symptoms or illnesses cannot comfortably participate in school work and expose peers and staff to their illness. Students should be fever-free without the aid of fever-reducing medication, such as Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen for 24 hours before returning to school.