In order
to protect students from the possible spread of disease, please keep
your child home if the following symptoms are present: diarrhea, red or
inflamed eyes, cold symptoms, skin rash, headache or pain. Please do not
send your child to school when he/she is ill.
Any
student with a temperature of 100.5 degrees or higher may not attend
school. Children may not return to school until they are fever free for
24 hours without fever reducing medicine. The health assistant may send
your child home for symptoms of illness, even without the presence of a
100.5 or greater fever.
Please
make arrangements to have either a parent or another adult available at
all times to pick up a child who is ill or injured. If both parents are
unavailable, the school will begin calling the adults listed by the
parents on the Emergency Card. Important: Please inform the school
immediately of any phone number or address changes.
Students
who are absent from school the day of an activity may not attend the
activity such as, but not limited to: an afternoon classroom party; a
middle school dance or sporting event; an after school enrichment club;
Kids Club care after school.
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Special
Provisions for Students with Chronic Health Conditions
If you
have a child with a chronic health condition, please contact the health
assistant at your school. Parents of children with a severe allergy
should contact their child's school health office upon enrolling their
child. The parent will be asked to complete specific paperwork that
will be reviewed by the school health team, building principal and
classroom teachers.
Notification to Parents Regarding Communicable Diseases
The school
principal, in consultation with the Regional Nurse, determines when and
to whom communicable disease notification letters will be sent.
Generally, if there is a physician confirmed case of communicable
illness in a classroom, a letter may be sent to all parents of children
in that classroom.
Generally, if 10% of the school population has been confirmed by a
physician to have a certain communicable disease, a notification letter
is sent home to parents of the entire student body.
Articles
may be placed, as needed, in school newsletters to alert parents about
specific communicable diseases in the school.
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MRSA
(Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus )
has been a
health topic of major concern in recent months. MRSA is a type of staph
infection that may cause a skin infection and is resistant to some
common antibiotics. Kyrene School District will follow the guidelines
of Maricopa County Health Department and or a student’s private
physician should a diagnosed case be confirmed by as student’s
physician. The following web sites contain important information on this
disease:
Arizona
Department of Health Services: (http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/oids/epi/disease/mrsa/mrsa_g.htm).
(CDC)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MRSAinSchools/
