Health Services

If a student’s temperature equals or is greater than 100 the student cannot return to class and the parent will be contacted to make arrangements for their student to leave school. No medication will be given at school to reduce the student’s elevated temperature. A student should have a normal temperature for 24 hours following an illness, without use of fever reducing medication, before returning to school. The day a student is sent home with fever and the following day are excused absences, if the student is sent home by the school nurse.

• If a child becomes ill or is injured, he will be assessed, given first aid, and the parents will be notified, when indicated.
• In no case will a child be sent home until the parent or the person identified by the parent has been contacted. (Every effort will be made to contact the parent first.)
• If the parent is unable to come for the child, arrangements must be made, by the parent, for the student to be picked up from school.
• In an extreme emergency EMS or 911 will be called.

The nurse has the responsibility if a contagious health condition is suspected to request that the child be picked up by the parent/guardian and examined by a physician for diagnosis and treatment. If a contagious illness is diagnosed, please notify the school nurse.

It is extremely important that parents keep emergency phone numbers updated. If you need to update your emergency contact information, please contact your child's campus.

Check your child's temperature with a thermometer, and if a fever of 100 degrees is present, do not send him or her to school, even for just a little while in the morning so that they can have "perfect attendance". Responsible attendance is more important than perfect attendance in the long run, and parents who use common sense and make healthy decisions about keeping their children home are the ones who should get the attendance rewards!

Also, it doesn't help your child's health to give medicine for fever and send them on to school...that only reduces the fever for a short time, and doesn't take care of the illness that is causing the fever. Coming to school sick not only exposes other children to the illness, but also delays your child's healing time. Once the medicine wears off and the fever returns, your child must be picked up anyway, and valuable healing time has been lost. Children should be fever-free for 24 hours, without the use of medicine, before returning to school.

If the vomiting or diarrhea happens more than once that day, or if they are associated with fever, you must keep your child home. Even if these things happen only one time before school starts, and your child feels better immediately afterwards, it is still wise to watch for a few hours to see if it happens again before sending him or her on to class. If your child is spending all his or her time at school feeling sick, then not much learning is taking place!

If the rash has any fluid or pus coming from it, the child must remain out of school until the rash has been treated and a note from the doctor states it is ok to return to school, or until the rash is gone, dried, or scabbed over with no new spots appearing. Anytime a rash is associated with fever, the child may not come to school until the fever is gone for 24 hours without medicine. Sometimes a rash is a sign of a contagious disease such as chickenpox. Sometimes, rashes are not contagious, but are uncomfortable and itchy from contact with something the child is allergic to. In that case, although school is certainly a good option, please consider comfort measures such as an antihistamine, following the district policy for medication administration at school and discussing possible treatment with your doctor and/or the school nurse.

this can often mean your child has conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye. If both eyes are red and the drainage is clear with no crusting the cause is most likely allergies. The student should remain at school. If the eye/eyes are red and the drainage is yellow or there is crusting the diagnosis is most likely pink eye. In this case, the student will need to see a physician and have a doctor's release or be symptom free to return to school.

These small insects cause skin conditions that are uncomfortable and itchy, and could become infected with all the scratching. If either of these conditions are present, check with the school nurse to get information on treatment and when your child may return to school.