Need help with wording.

Dear parents,

We have seen a sharp increase in the incidence of illness over the past several weeks. Unfortunately, we have had several students come to the health office with symptoms of illness stating that they have been given a fever-reducing medication prior to coming to school. While we of course want students to miss the least amount of school as possible, we understand that students best recover from illness at home. In addition, coming to school while ill with a fever spreads the illness to other students. Our current outbreak cannot be contained unless we have the cooperation of all parents and students. I would like to reiterate that all students must remain home until they have been FEVER FREE FOR 24 HOURS WITHOUT THE USE OF FEVER-REDUCING MEDICATIONS (Motrin, Advil, Tylenol, acetamiophen, ibuprofen, Tylenol cold, Pedia Care). in addition, if your child has vomited within the last 24 hours, or has diarrhea, they must stay home. We thank you for your help in keeping as many illnesses as possible out of our school.

Students must be fever free without the use of any medications or fever reducers for 24 hours before returning to school - ha posted the capsule version as MHD- who was just a whole lot more eloquent about it!!

MHD. I love it. Thanks for your help. Happy Thursday!

Students must be fever free without the use of any medications or fever reducers for 24 hours before returning to school

I love this too Flare. I am thinking about a tattoo with that on it. :)

The frustrating thing is, how many times have we all said over and over in newsletters, in person, etc. the rules for returning to school and they STILL don't cooperate. I just had a K kid this morning complaining of a sore throat and stomach ache. Her throat is ugly! I have several kids out with +Strep right now. As I am entering her info into the computer and getting ready to call mom, she casually mentions "I threw up twice this morning before I left for school and mommy said I still had to come". Believe me, it was very satisfying to call Mom and make her come pick the kid up.

The frustrating thing is, how many times have we all said over and over in newsletters, in person, etc. the rules for returning to school and they STILL don't cooperate. I just had a K kid this morning complaining of a sore throat and stomach ache. Her throat is ugly! I have several kids out with +Strep right now. As I am entering her info into the computer and getting ready to call mom, she casually mentions "I threw up twice this morning before I left for school and mommy said I still had to come". Believe me, it was very satisfying to call Mom and make her come pick the kid up.

The frustrating thing is, how many times have we all said over and over in newsletters, in person, etc. the rules for returning to school and they STILL don't cooperate. I just had a K kid this morning complaining of a sore throat and stomach ache. Her throat is ugly! I have several kids out with +Strep right now. As I am entering her info into the computer and getting ready to call mom, she casually mentions "I threw up twice this morning before I left for school and mommy said I still had to come". Believe me, it was very satisfying to call Mom and make her come pick the kid up.

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

I also love the kids that don't take a fever reducer, temp was 100 at home, now 101+ at school. Reports parent was aware and even took their temp and was like "just go see the nurse if you still don't feel well."

I like to remind parents that there have been instances of schools closing for a few days due to increased incidence of illness....as in, keeping your kid home for one day is WAYYYY better than trying to find a babysitter for several days in a row because your kid helped spread disease. But, that's for the parent's I know have a hard time understanding the aspect of "for the greater good"

Thankfully we don't acknowledge perfect attendance. Best thing ever!

I had a high school student come in after vomiting twice at home and once at school. Wanna know why she came in? So she could take her CPR certification class at CNA school. Yep. I'm not even kidding. "We all got sick from the nursing home where we do clinicals. One girl even left in the middle of CPR so she could go throw up and then she came back." Awesome. :banghead:

Worse than the perfect attendance award is giving the school their county/state/federal money based on how their attendance looks for the day/week/month/six weeks/semester.

The child is sick. Fever, vomiting, the whole 9 yards. No, my office is not a holding area until the attendance bell rings 3 hours into the school day. We have health policies for a reason, too.