Parent Information: When to keep your child home from school

Keep your child home if he/she has a fever (100.4° or over), diarrhea, vomiting, red draining eyes, draining ear or undiagnosed skin rash or skin condition (draining sores, bumps, constant itching, etc.). Keeping your child at home and notifying the school by telephone, if your child is ill or if he/she has a communicable condition (chicken pox, measles, mumps, infectious hepatitis, impetigo, herpes, scabies, lice, etc.) will help control and prevent the spread of communicable diseases.  Certain health measures can be taken at school with regard to the spread of some of the communicable diseases’, therefore, your telephone call is important.

If a student becomes ill at school or is observed with a questionable condition, every effort will be made to contact the parent.  The parent will make arrangements for the student to be taken home or to a physician.  Be sure to keep the school notified of changes in home or work telephone numbers and persons to contact in case the parent cannot be contacted.  This is important for the protection of the student in the event of an emergency.

After your child has recovered from an illness, he/she should be free of symptoms and the child's temperature should be normal for 24 hours before returning to school.