Illness Guidelines
When to Keep Your Child Home and Emergency Contact Information:
If your child is ill to the extent that it will be difficult for them to readily participate in any or all activities of a normal day, it is best to keep your child home. If you child becomes ill while at school or sustains an injury that requires further medical attention, you will be notified immediately. For this reason, it is important that we have all of your phone numbers available to us. In addition to the parent/guardian contact numbers, please be sure to provide us with at least one, and hopefully two, emergency contacts that we can call in the event that we cannot reach you. We understand that sometimes parents/guardians can’t get to the school to pick up their child in a timely manner, but in that instance, we need to have someone else to call that can come and pick your child up fairly readily (extended family, friends, etc.). Sick and injured children cannot be left in the health office for extended periods of time waiting for someone to pick them up.
Policy Regarding "Fevers"
Foxborough Public School policy regarding illness states that any child with a temperature of 100 degrees or more needs to be sent home and will not be allowed back to school the next day. If your child has a temperature of 100 degrees or more at home, please do not send them to school. Children MUST remain home for a full 24 hours after they become fever free. Fever free means they have a temperature LESS THAN 100 degrees without the assistance of fever lowering medication, such as Ibuprofen or Tylenol.
Illnesses That Require You to Keep Your Child Home From School
Other reasons to keep your child home include: vomiting and/or diarrhea. Your child needs to remain home for 24 hours after vomiting. Children also need to stay home after being placed on antibiotics for an infectious process (conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, impetigo, strep throat, etc.). If your child is placed on antibiotics for an infection, the twenty-four hours begins from the time they take their first dose of antibiotics. Hence, if your child has strep throat, and their first dose of antibiotic is at 11:30 a.m., your child MAY NOT return to school until 11:30 a.m. the next day. If it's a 3x/day medication, it doesn't "just" matter that you get "all 3 doses" of antibiotics in them prior to returning to school. What does matter is that the "3rd" dose has a chance to "work" over the 6-8 hours following its administration so that your child is then considered to be "no longer infectious." Also, if your child has a cold whereby they are runny, drippy and coughing up a storm, regardless of whether or not they have a fever, PLEASE keep them home. The same holds true on our end. If you child is coughing non-stop and/or is experiencing a lot of drainage, you will be asked to come pick them up.
If your child is ill to the extent that it will be difficult for them to readily participate in any or all activities of a normal day, it is best to keep your child home. If you child becomes ill while at school or sustains an injury that requires further medical attention, you will be notified immediately. For this reason, it is important that we have all of your phone numbers available to us. In addition to the parent/guardian contact numbers, please be sure to provide us with at least one, and hopefully two, emergency contacts that we can call in the event that we cannot reach you. We understand that sometimes parents/guardians can’t get to the school to pick up their child in a timely manner, but in that instance, we need to have someone else to call that can come and pick your child up fairly readily (extended family, friends, etc.). Sick and injured children cannot be left in the health office for extended periods of time waiting for someone to pick them up.
Policy Regarding "Fevers"
Foxborough Public School policy regarding illness states that any child with a temperature of 100 degrees or more needs to be sent home and will not be allowed back to school the next day. If your child has a temperature of 100 degrees or more at home, please do not send them to school. Children MUST remain home for a full 24 hours after they become fever free. Fever free means they have a temperature LESS THAN 100 degrees without the assistance of fever lowering medication, such as Ibuprofen or Tylenol.
Illnesses That Require You to Keep Your Child Home From School
Other reasons to keep your child home include: vomiting and/or diarrhea. Your child needs to remain home for 24 hours after vomiting. Children also need to stay home after being placed on antibiotics for an infectious process (conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, impetigo, strep throat, etc.). If your child is placed on antibiotics for an infection, the twenty-four hours begins from the time they take their first dose of antibiotics. Hence, if your child has strep throat, and their first dose of antibiotic is at 11:30 a.m., your child MAY NOT return to school until 11:30 a.m. the next day. If it's a 3x/day medication, it doesn't "just" matter that you get "all 3 doses" of antibiotics in them prior to returning to school. What does matter is that the "3rd" dose has a chance to "work" over the 6-8 hours following its administration so that your child is then considered to be "no longer infectious." Also, if your child has a cold whereby they are runny, drippy and coughing up a storm, regardless of whether or not they have a fever, PLEASE keep them home. The same holds true on our end. If you child is coughing non-stop and/or is experiencing a lot of drainage, you will be asked to come pick them up.