When Should a Child Stay Home From School?
It is very important that we prevent the spread of communicable disease. Before returning to school:
Students should be fever free for 24 hours without use of fever
reducing medications.
Students should be free of continuous coughing.
Students should remain at home until 24 hours after the last
episode of vomiting or diarrhea.
Students should remain home for 24 hours after taking the first
dose of antibiotic for an infection.
According to Missouri State Law, it is unlawful for any
child to attend any public schools in this state while afflicted
with any contagious or infectious disease, or while liable to
transmit such a disease after having been exposed to
it.
Because of all the infectious disease germs around us, it is particularly important to practice good hygiene such as hand washing and to not eat or drink after each other.
