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In consideration of fellow students
and staff members, please refrain from sending your child to school
if he/she displays any of the following symptoms at home. If such symptoms occur at school, the child will be removed from
peers, and you will be called to take him/her home.
| Fever of more than 1OO.5degrees
F in the past 24 hours | | Vomiting in the past 24 hours | | Diarrhea in the past 24 hours | | Severe pain or discomfort | | Yellow eyes or jaundice skin | | Red eyes
with discharge | | Difficult or rapid breathing | | Skin rashes lasting longer than 24 hours | | Swollen joints | | Visibly enlarged lymph nodes | | Stiff
neck | | Blood in urine | | Sore throat or severe coughing | | Mouth sores with drooling |
Once
a child is symptom free, or has a physician’s note stating that he/she no longer poses a serious health risk to themselves
or others, he/she may return to school.
If a child contracts any of the following diseases,
please report it to the school’s director immediately. The child may not
return to school without a doctor’s note stating that the child presents no risk to himself/herself or others.
Excludable Communicable Diseases | Respiratory Illnesses | Gastro-intestinal Illnesses | Contact Illnesses | Chicken Pox | Giardia Lamblia* | Impetigo | German measles* | Hepatitis A* | Lice | Salmonella* | Scabies | Hemophilus Influenzae* | Measles* | Shingella* | Strep Throat | Meningococcal* | Mumps* | Tuberculosis* | Whooping cough |
* Reportable diseases, as specified
in NJAC, IO: l22-7,1O (a) If your child is exposed to any excludable
disease at school, you will be notified in writing. The following is a guide to when your child is no longer contagious. This
is only a guide; for further verification, check with your child’s doctor.
| Chicken pox | After all
sores are crusted, usually 7 days | | Strep Throat | 24 hours after treatment
begins | | Conjunctivitis | 24 hours after treatment
begins | | Head
Lice | 24 hours after treatment begins | | Diarrhea: | After stools form again |
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