Communicable Diseases
Whenever children (or adults for that matter) are in close contact with one another for extended periods of time, the risk is high for the spread of disease. That is why schools must carefully stress disease prevention and control. Therefore, to protect your child and other children from disease outbreaks, we must ask parents to help by keeping their children home when ill with a communicable disease. We may also ask you to seek a medical diagnosis and treatment when the suspicion includes a communicable disease that may adversely affect the entire group of children. For example, something simple like a rash may be nothing contagious, like dermatitis, or it may be seriously contagious and potentially dangerous, like rubella (German Measles). Even when there may be no know treatment available, we may still require a definitive diagnosis from a physician. Please bear with us in these situations. It is much wiser to contain one rash, than to allow the spread of a serious illness throughout a school.
Kansas laws direct exactly how we must work to control the spread of communicable disease. A short summary of those that affect us (and you as parents) is listed as Public Health Regulations for communicable disease page. Here you will find tips regarding how long certain illnesses must remain excluded from contact with others.