Reasons to keep your child home

Reasons to keep your child home include but are not limited to:

Please complete the covid self assesment screening tool daily (found on my COVID page) and keep your child home if warranted

• A Fever of 100 degrees or more: 

  • keep your child home for 24 hours after the temperature returns to normal (98.6) without the use of fever reducing medication.

• Vomiting or Diarrhea: 

  • keep your child home for a minimum of 24 hours after the last episode.

• Rash:

  • if the cause is unknown please check with your physician before sending your child to school

Specific Considerations:

• Conjunctivitis:

  • 24 hours after treatment has begun and/or discharge has ceased

• Impetigo: 

  • 24 hours after treatment has begun.

  • Open lesions must be covered. If lesions cannot be covered, student must be excluded until lesions are closed and dry

• Head Lice:

  • after treatment is completed and no live lice are found

• Strep Throat

  • 24 hours after starting antibiotic treatment

• Ring Worm:

  • after treatment is started and any lesions must be covered