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Please make every effort to contact the school as soon as possible when you have decided to keep your child home from school. When calling to report your child absent, it is very important for the school to know what type of illness your child is experiencing. This information helps the school nurses with monitoring cases of chickenpox, strep throat, pneumonia, fifth's disease, head lice, skin rashes, etc.
Guidelines for keeping students home from school:
It is every parent/guardian's responsibility to help us keep our school environment and pupil population as healthy as possible. Many of our students have chronic health conditions which may be adversely affected by exposure to viral or bacterial illnesses. For everyone's well-being, we recommend that students not attend school if they have the following symptoms:
an actively runny nose (greenish yellow mucous)
a persistent, uncontrolled cough
a rash of unknown origin
an elevated temperature (greater than 100 degrees)
an untreated earache
vomiting within the last 24 hours
itching, reddened, weepy eyes
Please Note: If your child has a contagious bacterial infection such as strep throat, pneumonia, staphylococcus skin infections and/or conjunctivitis, it is highly recommended that he/she stay home from school for 24 to 48 hours after starting antibiotic medication (at least three doses). Children with chickenpox must stay home for approximately six days after the last erupted pox or until all the pox are scabbed over and healing. Information on infectious childhood diseases is available through the National Center For Infectious Diseases at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/disease/children/disease.htm
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