Please use these guidelines when making a decision on your child’s wellness for the school day:
If your child displays these symptoms, DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL! Your child may return to school 24 hours after symptoms have subsided. If a child exhibits these symptoms at school, parents will be called to take their child home. For example: fever or vomiting during the evening or night, means keep the child home the next day.
If your child has a fever of 100.4 or higher, they should stay at home and remain at home until he or she is fever-free for 24 hours WITHOUT any fever reducing medications like Motrin or Tylenol.
Symptoms: Fever, diarrhea, severe coughing, yellowish tint to the skin or eyes, red mattering eyes, bacterial pink eye, unusual spots or rashes, sore throat, difficulty in swallowing, vomiting, yellow or green discharge from the nose (one of the most commonly seen first signs of illness).
Parents may be called from the school to obtain further information if the school notices the following symptoms in the child: headache, rash, stiff neck, infected areas of the skin, unusual behavior (crankiness, general discomfort, disorientation, lethargy), loss of appetite, severe itching of body or scalp, sleepiness. In case of lice, the child must be checked by a staff member and found to be nit-free, before returning to the classroom.
If a doctor’s excuse is presented for P.E. or recess, the child will be sent to the office during these times.