The Holly Area Schools Elementary Handbook states:
Families are encouraged to screen their child daily for symptoms of possible illness. Please help us by keeping children at home if there is an elevated temperature, vomiting and/or diarrhea or a physician’s diagnosed communicable disease.
There are times when a student will need to be excluded from school until they are feeling better. A student with a fever above 100.4 degrees needs to be fever free, without any fever-reducing medication, for 24 hours prior to returning to school. If the student has more than two loose or watery stools, they will need to have no loose stools for 24 hours prior to returning to school. The exception to this rule is if a physician has determined that the student is not infectious, and a note is provided to the front office. Abdominal pain that is intermittent and associated with other symptoms or is persistant without improvement. Exclusion will occur for vomiting once, with other symptoms present or twice with no other symptoms present. Student should have no vomiting for 24 hours before returning to school. This list is not a comprehensive list of what may case a student to be excluded from school, please contact the main office or the district nurse if you have any questions.
Should children become ill at school or should staff suspect illness, we will request the student be picked up from school. We are not able to accommodate sick children for extended periods of time. All students must have a minimum of two phone contacts on their emergency contact list. Please help us by having an established plan in place to pick your child up from school within one hour of receiving a call. If a medical manor is urgent but does not necessarily require emergency medical services (EMS), the school will first contact the parent or guardian. If no one is available to take the student to the appropriate medical service, EMS be called to take the student to been seen by a medical professional.
The school follows current public health practices, rules and regulations governing the control and prevention of communicable disease that are set up by the State and County Health Departments. For further information or guidelines visit the website for Oakland County: www.oakgov.com/health or call 248-858-1280 for more information. ** Please call the office to arrange for homebound services if your child will be absent for more than five consecutive school days due to a serious illness, accident, injury, surgery, etc. Homebound services require a physician’s request.
