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
*Temperature of 100.0
degrees Fahrenheit or higher. If
the student's temperature is 100.0 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
vomiting 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.