ILLNESSES

If a student becomes too ill to remain in class, the school will contact the parent by phone and recommend that the student be picked up. The school must have an updated, working phone number on the emergency contact card to reach parents. The school has no facilities to attend to your child while he/she is waiting for the parent to arrive. Please do not send sick children to school and please pick the sick child up as quickly as possible. They will sit in the office until the parent arrives. Alcoa schools share a system-wide nurse. She is not always present at AES.

A student that contracts a contagious disease or condition, such as pink eye, chicken pox, ringworm, impetigo, or pediculosis (head lice) will be sent home from school and must remain home until the condition or disease is corrected and a written statement from the Doctor indicating the condition is no longer contagious. Students contacting pediculosis (head lice) cannot return to school until all nits are gone. The child is excused only for the day they are sent home with head lice, not subsequent days. Parents will also be contacted to pick up their child if the child's temperature is above 99.8 and in all cases of vomiting.