Students should feel well enough to participate in all classroom activities when coming to school. If he/she is suffering from an active illness, they are advised to stay home in order to protect other students and staff from possible disease transmission. If your student develops a fever or is sent home from school with a temperature of 99.9° or higher, he/she must be free of fever for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medicine before returning to school. Students should remain at home until their illness has resolved, even if examinations will be missed as a result of illness. Students should not come to school simply to complete an examination with the intention of leaving early due to illness.
If a student is absent for three consecutive days, a physician’s note indicating that the student has been seen and is safe to return to school may be requested. This will allow the student to take the absences as excused and more importantly, reassure the school community that we are making every effort to minimize the transmission of treatable contagious diseases.
Parents are requested to report all confirmed or suspected contagious diseases to the Nurse’s Office at (949) 766-6029. Early Dismissals (not due to illness) and all Absences are reported to the Attendance Office at (949) 766-6020.
Early Dismissal Due to Illness
If a student is too ill to remain in school, he/she must go to the Nurses Office and the nurse will notify the student’s parents. If the parent is unavailable, the persons designated on the student’s emergency card will be called. Once the nurse has called and obtained permission from the parents or emergency contact for the student to go home, a call slip will be issued. Leaving campus without a call slip will be considered truancy. Students are not allowed to use ride sharing services such as Uber/Lyft.