Health & Safety Standards // Lamplighters Yeshivah Parent Handbook
Health & Safety Standards
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Our responsibility for conducting a safe and healthy school includes taking special care to limit the spread of illness. While we cannot prevent all illness, we can reduce its incidence and severity. These guidelines establish a framework for both staff and families to determine if a child is well enough to attend school.
HAND WASHING
Frequent and proper hand washing prevents the spread of many germs. Parents, teachers and children should wash their hands upon arrival, after eating and after using the toilet( or being changed). Parents and staff are to wash their hands before joining children’ s activities.
HEALTHY ATTENDANCE
When you arrive in the morning, you may let your child’ s teacher know about any changes in behavior or eating and sleeping patterns. The state of New York requires that we not accept children into the class who exhibit any obvious symptoms of illness.
Because we do not have facilities or staff to provide care for sick children, we have developed a point system of symptoms to watch for, so you will know when to keep your child at home. We also use this list of symptoms to know when to contact you regarding any symptoms of illness that develop while your child is at school.
TWO-POINT SYMPTOMS
A child with any of the following two-point symptoms cannot attend:
• Diarrhea( more than one watery stool within four hours or with any other associated symptom)
• Severe coughing( high pitched“ croupy” or“ whooping” sounds or the face gets discolored
• Tearing, irritation and redness of the eye lining, followed by swelling and discharge( pink eye or conjunctivitis)
• Undiagnosed spots or rash
• Vomiting
ONE-POINT SYMPTOMS
A child with a fever of 101 degrees or above and any of the following one-point symptoms will be excluded from attendance. A child without fever, but with two of the following one-point symptoms will also be excluded from attendance:
• Sore throat or difficulty swallowing
• Unusually dark, tea-colored urine
• Gray or white stools
• Severe itching of the body or scalp
• Headache with stiff neck
• Loss of appetite
• General lethargy
• Infected skin with crusty, bright yellow, dry or gummy areas
You will be contacted by your child’ s teacher if any of these symptoms are observed when your child is in the classroom. You will need to pick up your child if any two-point symptoms or fever and a one-point symptom appear. If the child has no fever and a single, one-point symptom, staff will notify you by phone and observe your child carefully.
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