WHEN YOUR CHILD IS SICK:
If your child exhibits any of the following symptoms, please do not send them to school. If they are found to have any of the following symptoms at school, the parent/guardian, or emergency contact will be notified and the child will be sent home:
If your child exhibits any of the following symptoms, please do not send them to school. If they are found to have any of the following symptoms at school, the parent/guardian, or emergency contact will be notified and the child will be sent home:
*Temperature of 100.0 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. If the student's temperature is 101.0 or higher, the student may be excluded from school for a minimum of 24 hours until symptom-free and/or fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever suppressing medications.
*Two or more episodes of diarrhea within 24 hours or any diarrheal illness. The student may be excluded from school until diarrhea free for 24 hours without the use of diarrhea suppressing medications.
*Blood in stools not explained by dietary change, medication, or hard stools.
*Nausea and/or vomitting accompanied by a fever above 100.0 degrees Fahrenheit, or abdominal pain/tenderness upon palpation that lasts longer than 2 hours.
*Two or more episodes of vomiting within 24 hours.
*Red eye with purulent discharge or crusting.
*Scaly patches on scalp (possible ringworm)
*Open, purulent draining lesions.
*Signs of jaundice.
*Undetermined rash on torso or face with behavior change or fever, open wound and drainage, bruising without cause, joint pain, inability to participate, or increasing tenderness and redness at the site.
Exclusion criteria is established by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and located in the Texas Administrative Code, http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=25&pt=1&ch=97&rl=7
The campus administrator shall exclude from attendance any child having or suspected of having a communicable disease designated by the Commissioner of Health as cause for exclusion until one of the criteria listed is fulfilled.