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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
 

Laura Hammack, RN
Van Alstyne Middle School
903-482-8826
 
Norma Thomas, RN
Sanford Elementary
903-712-1909
 
Brandy Melancon, LVN
Partin Elementary
903-482-8805
 
Rachel Kohler
Van Alstyne Junior High
903-482-8803
 
Sydney Holland, LVN
Van Alstyne High School
903-712-6500