Should your child stay home?

Please do not send your child to school if they are ill.

Sometimes your child may say they need to attend and the

only way for them to be at school is to medicate them so that their fever, cough, or diarrhea is "hidden" and they can make

it through the day.  These students are not comfortable in

school and they expose their classmates and teachers to

illness.

Guidelines for keeping students home from school:

     - Nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea within the past

       24 hours.

     - Severe persistent coughing or a severe cold.

     - An oral temperature of 100 degrees or higher.  

       Their temperature should remain normal for 24

       hours (without medication) before your child

       returns to school.

     - Undetermined skin rash.

     - Red, watery, burning eyes with either white or

       yellow drainage.

     - All communicable disease conditions including

       head lice, strep throat, chickenpox etc.

     - If your child receives an antibiotic for a 

       communicable disease, they should take the  

       medication for 24 hours before returning to school.

This school year the Geauga County Health Department

has requested that we assist them in tracking communicable diseases in our county. When you call the school to report your child absent, the school needs the following

information:

     - Why your child is absent.

     - What are the symptoms.  Be specific.

          - nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, cough, fever,  

            muscle aches etc.

     - Let the building know if your child was seen by a

       physician.  Please give the doctors' diagnosis.  Was any

       medication prescribed.