If Your Child is Sick

If a child arrives at school ill, or becomes ill during the school day, the child is sent to the Health Office on either campus. The School Nurse will notify the child’s parents or designated caregiver and care for the child until the child can be picked up. Please remember that the Health Office is not designed to accommodate children who become ill at school for long periods of time.

Conditions requiring exclusion from school include, but are not limited to:

• Fever (temperature 100.4°F and above), nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. The child may return to school after being symptom-free without medication for a full 24 hours.

• Strep throat. The child may return to school after being on antibiotics for a full 24 hours.

• Pink eye. The child may return to school after being on antibiotics for a full 24 hours.

• Head lice. The child must be examined by the School Nurse, who will determine if treatment has been effective, and live lice have been removed.

• Infectious disease, illnesses, or conditions that are deemed contagious according to the guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control, American Academy of Pediatrics and the District of Columbia (i.e. chicken pox, shingles, measles, mumps)