If Your Child is Sick

If your child is sick, please call the Front Office and let them know why your child will be absent

ILLNESS ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES

*If your child is sick, please keep them home to keep other students and staff from getting sick

**If you have to give your child medicine before coming to school, please keep them home for the day

DO NOT send your child to school if he/she has:

• Temperature 100.4 degrees and over

• Vomiting

• Diarrhea

• An injury that makes it difficult to learn or play comfortably

• Symptoms that are not getting better with treatment

If your child has had a FEVER:

• He/she cannot come back to school until:

  •  It has been 24 hours since the last temperature above 100.4 and

  •  He/she has not taken Tylenol, ibuprofen, or any other medications

  •  For example, if a student has a fever Sunday at 5 pm, he/she cannot return to school on Monday. The student can return on Tuesday as long as he/she has not had a fever all day Monday.

If your child has been VOMITING:

• He/she cannot come back to school until able to eat some food without vomiting or feeling the need to vomit. 

• Students cannot come to school if they vomited the evening before or the morning of a school day.

If your child has had DIARRHEA:

• He/she can return to school when it will not interfere with regular school activities. 

• Students cannot come to school if they had diarrhea the evening before or the morning of a school day.

Picking up a Sick/Ill/Injured Student:

If the Health Office calls you to pick up your student, you need to pick him/her up within 30 minutes.  A sick student cannot go home on the bus or stay in the Health Office until school is over.