Health Policy
Health Policy
You know your child best — you are the key to our health program.
You are the one who knows your child best, so you are the key to our health program. We depend on parents to notice early signs and symptoms of illness. These are some symptoms for which a child should be kept home or sent home from school. If a child has 2 or more of these symptoms, please keep your child home:
- Runny nose
- Sneezing
- Coughing
- Fever
- Rashes of any kind
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Marked loss of appetite
- Unusual irritability
- Listlessness
- Fatigue
- Swollen glands
- Sore throat
- Inflamed or draining eyes
Please keep your child at home when they have signs of a cold. A number of more contagious childhood diseases begin with the same symptoms as a cold. Colds are most contagious when they start, so the County Health Department advises that a child with cold-like symptoms be kept home until their temperature has been normal — or their symptoms have subsided — for twenty-four hours without medication that would artificially keep it down. The same applies to adults scheduled to work at the school.
If a child arrives at school with any of the above symptoms, the teacher may send the child home. If symptoms appear after school starts, the child will be isolated until the parents can be reached. If a parent is not available, a person listed on your Emergency Information Card will be called and the child sent home with them. Our teachers have the ultimate decision as to who is well enough to remain in class.
Children must be picked up within 30 minutes of being contacted by a school employee.