When Should I Keep My Child Home From Schoo

The purpose of our Sick Child Guidelines is to maintain a healthy learning environment for ALL students.   If someone has the following symptoms, they should stay home because their illness could affect their ability to participate in school and there is a concern that they may spread the infection to staff and students: Fever (100.0 degrees or greater)-stay home for an additional 24 hours once fever free (without the use of fever reducing medication such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen) Strep Throat-stay home for 24 hours after starting antibiotics Vomiting more than twice in the preceding 24 hours Diarrhea that causes “accidents”, or causes frequent trips to the bathroom Skin sores that are draining fluid on an uncovered part of the body and unable to be covered with a bandage Respiratory virus symptoms that are worsening or not improving, continually coughing, especially if not able to fully participate in the school day.  If frequent coughing, recommend wearing a mask.

When you may have a respiratory virus...‎

Stay home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory virus symptoms that aren't better explained by another cause. These symptoms can include fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache, among others.*

• You can go back to your normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:
  • Your symptoms are getting better overall, and
  • You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication).
• When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps such as hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors.  This is especially important to protect people with factors that increase their risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses.
  • Keep in mind that you may still be able to spread the virus that made you sick, even if you are feeling better.  You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were.

We ask that if calling in your child sick from school, please indicate what symptoms they are having so that we can monitor illnesses circulating in our school.  If they have been diagnosed with a specific illness, please let us know that as well (Strep, Influenza, Covid-19, Chickenpox, Shingles, etc.)

• We no longer have any Covid Test kits available but do have masks if requested.