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Illness Policy

Parents are asked to notify the center within 24 hours if their child has been exposed to or diagnosed with any illness or communicable disease.

When deciding whether or not a child needs to be excluded from school due to illness, two questions are considered:

1. Is the child contagious?
2. Is the child able to join in the activities of the group or does he/she require special care and rest?

We find the following guidelines to be most helpful:

• Children must be capable of participating fully in the program. This includes active as well as quiet play, outdoor as well as indoor play.
• Children may not attend with a fever over 101. A child with a lower temperature in combination with other symptoms may also need to be sent home.
• Children may not attend with diarrhea. You will be called if your child has repeated bouts of diarrhea or just one uncontained bout of diarrhea (if it leaks out of diapers or pants).
• Children may not attend with an undiagnosed rash.
• Children may not attend with draining or pink eyes.

Children who are not well enough to participate in all aspects of our program, including outside play, are not well enough to attend daycare.