• Keep students home if they are sick. We have prepared general guidance for our families and staff on when to keep students home from school. It is available here. Students who meet these criteria while at school will be isolated and sent home.
  • Symptoms that a child is too sick for school:
    • Fever: temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Child must not have a fever for 24 hours before returning to school.
    • Vomiting: child should not return to school for 24 hours following the last episode of vomiting.
    • Chronic cough and/or runny nose: continual coughing and excessive nasal discharge. Conditions may be contagious and may require treatment from your health care provider.
    • Diarrhea: more than one watery stool in a 24-hour period, especially if the child acts or looks ill.
    • Sore throat: especially with fever or swollen glands in the neck.
    • Rash: body rash, especially with fever or itching.
    • Ear infection: with fever. Without fever can attend school, but the child may need medical treatment and follow-up. Untreated ear infections can cause permanent hearing loss.
    • Eye infection: Eye infection: pink eye (conjunctivitis) or thick mucus or pus draining from eye.
    • Unusual appearance, behavior: abnormally tired, pale, lack of appetite, difficult to wake, confused or irritable. This is sufficient reason to exclude a child from school.
• Wash hands frequently. Staff will work with all our students when they return to school on Monday to remind them of good hand washing procedures.
• Avoid hand to face contact, avoiding eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.