If Your Child Is Sick?
What to do if your child is sick at home?
Keep your child home if they are not feeling well.
Call the school attendance line to report their absence (please state a specific reason: fever, vomiting, travel etc).
If specific symptoms are not stated, a 5 day quarantine letter starting from the date of absence will be sent.
With the Covid-19 Pandemic, the school nurse will email you information regarding child's return to school date.
What happens if my child is sick at school?
During the school day, if your child has any a symptom (s) that may be related to Covid-19 per the NM PED Toolkit, they will be sent to the Care Room. Parent/guardian will be contacted to pick up their child as soon as possible (within 30 minutes) to help protect our school community from the potential spread of COVID-19.
Picking up a student from the Care Room or Health Office:
If the Health Office calls you to pick up your student, you need to pick your child within 30 minutes.
A sick student cannot go home on the bus or stay in the Health Office or Care Room until school is over.
Illness Attendance Guidelines
If you have to give your child medicine before coming to school, please keep him/her home for the day.
DO NOT send your child to school if he/she has:
Temperature of 100.0 degrees or higher
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 100.0 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.