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Exclusion from School

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When to Keep Your Child Home
 
Some illnesses or conditions require that a student be excluded from school until symptom-free. Students with any of the following symptoms must be excluded from school:
 
  • Temperature of 100.0 degrees or more. Student must be fever free for 24 hours, without the use of fever-reducing medication, before re-entry

  • Vomiting (not related to a single event such as gagging, positioning, mucus, running after eating, or eating spicy food). Student must be symptom free for 24 hours without medication before re-entry

  • Diarrhea, of two or more loose or watery stools; all students must be diarrhea free for 24 hours without the use of medications before re-entry

  • Pain and/or swelling at angle of jaw

  • Undetermined rash over any part of the body 

  • Under diagnosed scaly patches on the body or scalp

  • Red, draining eyes

  • Intense itching with signs and symptoms of secondary infection

  • Open, draining lesions or wounds

  • Strep sore throat - exclude until 24 hours from time antibiotic treatment was begun and fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever suppressing medications

  • For any other reason deemed necessary by the school for the safety of the student and all students and staff

 
 
School Nurse Directory
 
Brooke Ray, RN-BSN
Partin Elementary/District Nurse
Partin Elementary School
903-482-8826
 
Carolyn Cherry, LVN
Sanford Elementary
903-712-1909
 
Lorie Wilson, LVN
Van Alstyne Middle School
903-482-8878
 
Sydney Holland, LVN
Van Alstyne High School
903-482-8862