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Please report ALL absences to the School
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When to keep your child home
When to keep your child home
Temperature ≥ 100.4
Persistent cough or runny nose
Positive COVID test
Vomiting within the last 24 hours
≥ 3 watery stools within the last 24 hours
Body rash with itching or fever
Live adult head lice
Eye infection with drainage
when to return to school after illness
when to return to school after illness
Fever free (<100.4) for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication (Tylenol/acetaminophen or Motrin/ibuprofen)
If started on an antibiotic, 24 hours after antibiotic started
Vomiting free for 24 hours and have been able to hold down 2 meals
Diarrhea free (<3 watery stools/24 hours)
Body rash has been evaluated by MD
No live adult head lice, must be treated and nits removed
Eyes free from drainage
Medical excuse notes
Medical excuse notes
If your child is tardy, absent or dismissed due to a medical/dental/behavioral health appointment, please have the provider send in a note to excuse missed school time
If your child is absent- ill for 3 or more days, a medical provider note is needed to medically excuse the absences. In general, if a student is ill enough to miss school, and not improving on the 3rd day of symptoms, they should be evaluated by a medical provider for something more serious
Medical Provider notes that indicate a parent called the office to report student was absent due to illness, but student was not actually examined by a medical provider, are not accepted as medically excused absences.
Notes are also needed for a student to be medically excused from gym/recess and when those restrictions are no longer necessary (unless time frame was indicated on original note.)
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