Our goal is to provide a safe and healthy environment for your child. Staff is available at every school to assist students with health needs and dispense medication as needed per doctor’s prescription and parent instructions. Your school can provide you with their health and medication procedures.
Please call your school’s attendance line as soon as possible if your student will need to stay home from school due to illness or miss part of the day for an appointment. This ensures their nonattendance is recorded as an excused absence.
Immunizations
Oregon state law requires that students have received appropriate vaccinations for school entry. To view the State of Oregon’s complete list of Immunization and Dosage Requirements, click on one of the following links:
Kindergartners and other students new to the District will not be allowed to start school without the required immunizations.
School administrators are required to exclude from school those students not having proof of at least one dose of each of the above-noted immunizations. The only exceptions are those children who have health problems that would prevent them from receiving the inoculations and those whose religious teachings oppose immunizations.
Immunization Exclusion Day - annual date designated by the State Health Department - when students without complete immunizations or exemptions are sent home and not allowed to return to school until the requirements are completed.
For the 2011-12 school year, exclusion day is Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
Getting Immunizations
Immunizations may be obtained from your medical provider. Also, the Washington County Health & Human Services (HHS) Department operates several clinics that offer a variety of services, including immunizations. Please visit the Washington County HHS web site or contact them at (503) 846-4955 for more information about services and locations.
When to Keep Your Child Home
In the school environment many communicable diseases are easily transmitted from one student to another. A healthy environment involves prevention, early recognition of illness, symptoms, prompt diagnosis and treatment. Children who are not feeling well have a difficult time concentrating and therefore do not benefit from the instruction they receive during that time. Please do not send an ill child to school. We need your assistance in providing a safe and healthy environment for your child.
Below are some guidelines to help you make the decision whether or not to send your child to school. The recommendations are based on the guidelines provided by the Communicable Disease Division of the Washington County Department of Health and Human Services and The Oregon Department of Education.
Keep your child home if she/he has any of the following symptoms:
|
Symptom
|
Explanation
|
|
Fever
|
Greater that 100.5 F. May return when temperature is normal for a minimum of 24 hours without using fever reducing medicine.
|
|
Vomiting
|
>2 in the preceding 24 hours, unless determined to be from a non-communicable condition. May return when resolved.
|
|
Diarrhea
|
3 or more watery or loose stool in 24 hours. May return when resolved for 24 hours.
|
|
Stiff Neck
|
Or headache with accompanying fever. May return after resolution of symptoms or diagnosis made and clearance given by medical provider.
|
|
Rash
|
Any new onset of rash. May return after rash resolves or diagnosis is made and clearance given by medical provider.
|
|
Jaundice
|
Yellowing of eyes or skin. May return after diagnosis from physician and clearance given.
|
|
Eye Discharge
|
Thick mucus or pus draining from eyes.
|
|
Other
|
Symptoms or complaints that prevent the student from active participation in usual school activities.
|
If your child is diagnosed with a communicable disease, please notify the school as soon as possible. Some students have medical conditions and/or compromised immune systems that can become life threatening when exposed to certain illnesses.