Student Illness Guidelines
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To minimize the spread of infectious disease and to provide for a safe environment, students should be kept home from school for:
- Fever greater than 100° within the last 24 hours
- Fever should be under 100° for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications before returning to school
- Vomiting-or-diarrhea within the last 24 hours
- A communicable disease
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- New loss of taste or smell
- Muscle aches or body aches not due to a known cause
- An upper respiratory illness with significant coughing and/or nasal discharge
- Pain that requires the use of narcotic medications