School Sickness Policy

Our school is taking many important precautions to help keep our children, families and staff HEALTHY & SAFE this school year. 

Please DO NOT bring your child to school if he/she is ill.   

You are the best judge of your child’s health, and we trust you will not bring a sick child to school. However, if the opinion of a staff finds your child sick, you will be called to have your child picked up to ensure the welfare of all children within the school.

  Your child will be sent home under the following criteria:

·A fever of 100 degrees or higher*

· Inflammation of the eyes (excessive redness, glassy or discharge)

· Vomiting

· Diarrhea

· Communicable disease as defined by the Department of Health/Center for Disease Control

· Unknown rash

· Excessive nasal discharge, especially if yellow or greenish, since this indicates infection

· Pain

· Live Head lice (children who have live head lice are NOT allowed to go to school until they are lice-free.)

Please be advised that if your child is experiencing a serious, contagious illness, you MUST have a doctor’s note stating that said child is no longer contagious and can return to school.

If your child is sick for than TWO days OR experiencing a serious, contagious illness, you MUST have a doctor's note stating that said child is no longer contagious and can return to school.  It is an EFFECTIVE way of protecting the whole school community. 

Please make sure your child dresses appropriately for the weather.

*Your child MUST be fever free for 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medicine) in order to return to school.

As of August 31, 2022

Students who test positive for COVID-19 must isolate for five days and can

return to the program on Day 6 if they have no symptoms or symptoms are improving.

They should wear a mask when attending child care until Day 10 after symptom onset or

date of positive test, or they may remove their mask following two negative COVID-19

tests taken 48 hours apart.

Students MAY continue to attend school as long as they receive NEGATIVE TEST RESULTS  with a PCR COVID TEST or an age-appropriate At Home Test Kit, and DO NOT experience any symptoms of COVID-19.  They should get tested five days after their last exposure and

wear a high-quality, well-fitting mask for 10 days.

Students are required to wear a mask when:

• Returning to child care after testing positive for COVID-19 through Day 10 after symptom onset or date of positive test, whichever is earlier, including when traveling on a school bus.
• Entering the facility medical room, nurse’s office or school-based health center.
• Exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 at child care.

Students are strongly encouraged to wear a mask:

• When they were exposed to someone with COVID-19, whether the exposure occurred in the child care facility or outside the facility. The person should wear a mask for 10 days after their last day of exposure and get tested on Day 5.
• If they are moderately to severely immunocompromised and masking is recommended by their health care provider
• In crowded indoor settings