SICK CHILD GUIDELINES 

Please use the guidelines outlined below when deciding on your child’s wellness for the school day. If you child displays the following symptoms, DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL:

Symptoms 

• Fever - If your child has a fever of 100 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.
• Diarrhea
• Severe coughing
• Yellowish tint to the skin or eyes
• Red watering 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)
• If your child displays the symptoms listed above, 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 keeping the child home the next day.  Do not send a sick child on a school field trip. 

If your child displays any of the symptoms listed above during school, the front office staff will contact the parents/guardians.  Parents/guardians are expected to pick up their sick child within 30 minutes of the phone call from the school.  We do not have the facilities or staff to keep sick children in school.  If parents/guardians cannot pick up their sick child in the 30 minute timeframe, then they are to call other “emergency contact” or “authorized pick up” people to come and get their child.  Similarly, if a sick child’s parent or guardian cannot be reached within 15 minutes, “emergency contact” people as designated by the parent in School Speak will be contacted to pick up the sick child.

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.