When Students Should Stay Home

CRITERIA FOR STUDENTS REMAINING HOME

OR BEING SENT HOME WHEN SICK

 

Spartanburg School District 6 follows the DPH School and Childcare Exclusion guidelines for school attendance. There are times when a student should not be in attendance at school for his/her own welfare and for the protection of other students. Students should remain home or may be sent home from school if they have any of the following symptoms:

 

•             Fever, a temperature of 100 degrees or higher. A student must be fever-free, without fever-reducing    medications, for 24 hours before returning to school.
•             Any communicable disease (chicken pox, measles, etc.)
•            Undiagnosed rash or skin eruptions.
•            Vomiting - Exclude if vomited more than 2 times in 24 hours unless determined to be from a condition which does not require exclusion.  
•            Untreated head lice or scabies. District Six follows a “no nit” procedure for students returning to           school after diagnosis of head lice. Students must be checked by the school nurse on return to           school and be lice and nit free.
•             Students with a diagnosis of strep throat must be on antibiotics for 12 hours and be fever free           before returning to school.
•            Students with suspected MRSA (staph infection) must be referred to a physician for treatment. The student may return with physician permission, once antibiotic treatment has been initiated.  Lesions should be kept covered until they are dry.
•            Ringworm - Exclusion until treatment is initiated - athletes who may have person to person contact cannot participate for 72 hours after starting treatment unless the area can be kept covered.