For the protection of your child and others, students who are ill should stay home. If a student becomes ill during the school day, the parent or guardian will be notified to pick up the student. If a parent cannot be reached, the emergency contact person will be notified. If we are unable to reach the emergency contact, the sponsor's supervisor will be contacted. Any student with the following symptoms or communicable diseases should not be sent to school and will be sent home:
If your child has any of the above mentioned communicable diseases please notify the school nurse. DoDEA policy states that a child must be fever free (temperature less than 100°) for 24 hours WITHOUT Tylenol or Motrin. Unfortunately, many children return to school the day after they have been sent home with 100°+ temps. These children are still potentially infectious and they will be sent back home. Please help us protect our large population from the spread of all infectious occurrences.
Head lice are a common occurrence in the school age population. Head lice are usually transmitted through close personal contact (head to head) with another infested individual. This can also occur by sharing personal items which have contact with the head, such as combs, brushes, caps, sweaters, and coats. Head lice can crawl very quickly. They cannot jump or fly. They will not live very long off of the human host. Inspect your children often, by carefully examining the back of the neck and behind the ears for a small grayish-tan, wingless insect the size of a sesame seed. Head lice lay eggs (nits) very close to the scalp and are very tightly attached. They are small whitish specks which cannot be easily brushed or shaken off the hair shaft.
When a child gets lice, it does not suggest that the child is not clean; it only indicates that the child has been near someone with lice. Persistence and regular examinations are needed to keep head lice in check. If a head louse is found on your child, treatment is required before the child is permitted to return to school. All treatments need careful attention to directions! Use only treatments recommended for head lice. The information below may help in the treatment and eradication of head lice from your family and home.