Trillium Charter School

Illness Policy

Trillium Charter School Illness Policy

When to keep your student home from school due to illness:

• When the child has a fever, or if you have given a child a medication to bring down a fever. Your child should be fever free and fever reducing medication free for 24 hours.
• When your child feels nauseous or has vomited within the past 24 hours.
• When your child has a sore throat.
• When your child as a persistent cough.
• When your child has yellow/green mucous coming from nasal passages.
• When your child exhibits signs of extreme fatigue and/or generally overall ill feelings.

If your child arrives at school with any of these conditions, you may be asked to take your child home immediately.

If your child exhibits any of these conditions during the school day, they will be sent home. It is imperative that we have reliable contact information for you at school. If you are unreachable and your child needs to be sent home, we will call people on your emergency contact list.

We understand that ill children can make lives more complicated. If we learn to reduce exposure at school, hopefully it will eventually lead to less days home sick.

-updated September 2009

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