The following are guidelines to ensure a healthy learning environment where each student’s potential to learn and grow is maximized.

Please keep your child home if any of the following occurs:

• Temperature of 100 degrees or higher within the last 24 hours     
  • A student must be fever-free for 24 hours, without the use of medication to mask the symptoms.
• Vomiting or diarrhea within the last 24 hours
• Rash of unknown cause
• Persistent cough, runny nose, congestion, fatigue, or body aches  (not related to allergies)
• Redness, itching, or discharge from eyes  (not related to allergies)
• Students with Strep Throat need to be treated with antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.
• ​​​​​​​Weeping cold sores or other lesions (such as Impetigo) until under treatment

Why:

• To protect your child from exposure to other illness before he/she is able to build resistance.
• To protect other students and staff from a communicable disease that your child may transmit.

REMEMBER hand-washing is the most effective means of protecting the spread of communicable diseases.  Remind your children to wash their hands frequently and cover their nose and mouths when coughing and sneezing.  Enclose hand wipes in your child’s backpack and lunch box to ensure cleaner hands throughout the school day!

BREAKFAST – Don’t leave without it!

Many students come to school without eating breakfast.  If they are hungry they may feel light-headed, dizzy, restless, or inattentive.  They may complain of a headache or stomachache.  Their ability to learn will be impaired.  Please encourage your child to eat a nutritious food and beverage before leaving for school.  If students are unable to eat breakfast at home, please encourage them to buy breakfast in the school cafeteria!