Sick student?

Sometimes it can be hard to know how sick a child needs to be before they should stay home for the day.  Every case is different but here are some general guidelines to follow when making that decision:

Send students to school when they:

• Have a runny nose or just a cough, but no other symptoms;
• Haven’t taken any fever-reducing medicine for 24 hours and haven’t had a fever during that time;
• Haven’t thrown up or had any diarrhea for 24 hours.

Keep the students home when they:

• Have a temperature higher than 38 degrees even after taking medicine;
• Are throwing up or have diarrhea;
• Have eyes that are pink and crusty.

Be sure to notify the school if:

• Your child needs to stay home for the day
• There is a case of chickenpox, meningococcal or tuberculosis infection within your household.  This is particularly important so that children in our school community who are more vulnerable to infection can be protected.

Please consider others and be sure to stick to the guidelines above.  It may be inconvenient to have a child stay home for the day but please think of others and help protect the health of all students.  For some, catching someone else's bug might just be a small inconvenience.  For others it might seriously put their health at risk.