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Illness Guidelines

 

 

Read important H1N1 flu information

 

If a student is sick in the morning, the school expects the student to remain home for the day. If a student becomes sick in school or suffers an injury, parents will be contacted.

Children should be kept home until symptom-free for 24 hours; if antibiotic are prescribed, children should be on the medication for 24 hours before returning to school.

 

No student is allowed to leave the school building because of illness without first reporting to the school office.

 

The following are the minimum required immunizations for each grade level. Even though your child meets these minimum requirements, he or she may be in need of booster doses.

 

Grade
Number of doses
Pre K 4 DTP/DTaP/DT 3 Polio 1 MMR 3 Hep B 1 Var
K-8 4 DTP/DTaP/DT 4 Polio 2MMR 3 Hep B 1 Var

 

Please note:


- Student immunization record forms must be turned into the school office by the first day of school

- MMR vaccines must have been received on or after the first birthday

- If your child received the third dose of DTP/DT/Td and polio after the fourth birthday, further doses of these vaccines may be recommended, but are not required VAR means Varicella (chickenpox) vaccine. Chickenpox disease history is also acceptable

 

MEDICATION POLICY


No prescription or non-prescription medications shall be administered by school personnel or their agents to a student until a Medication Consent Form has been completed by the student's parent or guardian and returned to the school office.

 

Please keep your child at home and seek the advice of your medical provider for:

 

  • Fever and sore throat, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, earache, irritability or confusion. Fever is defined as a temperature of 100°F or higher taken under the arm, 101°F taken orally or 102°F taken rectally.
  • Diarrhea - runny, watery or bloody stools
  • Body rash with a fever
  • Sore throat with a fever and swollen glands
  • Eye discharge - thick mucus or pus draining from the eye, or pink eye
  • Yellowish skin or eyes
  • Chickenpox until the lesions are all scabbed over (seven days after onset of rash)
  • Cold symptoms that cause sinus pain, chest pain, or the coughing up of gray or green sputum with or without a fever
  • Head lice until after the treatment has been completed. This includes removing the nits (eggs) with the special comb or your fingernails and having clean clothes to put on