If your child contracts a communicable disease or serious illness, you must report it to your child’s teacher or the director. As required by the DPH, children with a contagious, reportable disease must stay at home until all danger of contagion has passed [see chart below]. Whenever we have a communicable condition, such as chicken pox, strep infection, Fifths disease, head lice, measles, salmonella, etc., we notify parents in the room where the condition exists by email with information about the disease and symptoms to watch for. In the event that a child needs to be excluded due to a communicable disease or for other health reasons, such as giardia, we will contact our healthcare consultant or the local public health department. Your child may return to First Circle when approved by the pediatrician or health official.
A child with any of the following infectious diseases or symptoms must stay out of school until: