Flu Season is here! McKinney ISD policy states students with fever need to stay home. Students can return to school when they have been fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medication. (Fever is defined as a temperature of 100F or higher.)
As a reminder, here is a list of symptoms from the Center for Disease Control:
Flu can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death.
Flu is different from a cold. Flu usually comes on suddenly.
People who have flu often feel some or all of these symptoms:
· fever*
· cough
· sore throat
· runny or stuffy nose
· body aches
· headache
· chills
· fatigue
· sometimes diarrhea and vomiting
*It’s important to note that not everyone with flu will have a fever.
SPINAL SCREENINGS . . .
The State of Texas changed the spinal screening guidelines this year to consider the most recent, nationally-accepted, peer-reviewed recommendations when considering appropriate age for conducting mandatory spinal screening. In compliance with Health and Safety Code, Chapter 37, all children shall undergo screening for abnormal spinal curvature in accordance with the following schedule: Girls will be screened two times, once at age 10 and again at age 12. Boys will be screened one time at age 13 or 14. In McKinney ISD, we will be consider a student to be 10, 12 or 13 if the student is already this age or turns this age between May 1, 2018 and April 30, 2019.
The procedure for screening is simple. Your child will be examined while he/she stands and then leans forward from the front, back and side. For this examination, boys and girls will be screened separately. Boys will wear their pants or gym shorts and only remove their shirts. Girls will need to wear a halter-top, sports bra or a two-piece swimsuit with pants, shorts, or skirt.
At Bennett, this will take place on January 29 and 30. All students involved have received letters from the nurse.
