For your child’s protection and the protection of others, children should be kept at home when they have any of these symptoms:

1. Cold symptoms, coughing, sore throat, etc. Many diseases in their first stages resemble the common cold.

2. Fever: A child should have a normal temperature after an illness for at least 24 hours, prior to returning to school.

3. Upset stomach, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea: A child should be kept at home until there has been no vomiting or diarrhea for at least 24 hours.

4. Undiagnosed rash, skin lesions, red eyes or eyes with drainage, earache, swollen glands: A child with any of these symptoms should be kept at home until diagnosed by a physician or until symptoms have disappeared.

Students being treated for scabies, impetigo, ringworm, or any contagious disease will remain out of school for the length of time designated by our Kansas Communicable Disease Handbook or should present a written note from a physician before returning to school. Students with head lice will remain out of school until treatment for the infestation has been proven to be successful.

The school nurse may be contacted if necessary.

NOTE: Please notify the school immediately if your child has been diagnosed as having a communicable disease so that we may then notify the parents of the other students in that classroom.

It is our policy that any student contracting a communicable disease will not be permitted in the classroom until assurance is received from the treating physician that the child is no longer contagious.