• Control of Casual-Contact Communicable Diseases
     
    Illness

    Duneland School Corporation health personnel and/or principal will exclude students from school who exhibit symptoms of casual-contact communicable disease according to the protocols established by the Indiana State Department of Health. In order to protect the health and safety of ALL students, casual-contact communicable diseases include COVID-19, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, scarlet fever, all strep infections, whooping cough, and/others designated by the Indiana State Department of Health.

    Children should be kept at home if they have the following:
     
    ● Temperature of 100 degrees or over*
    ● Any inflammatory eye condition without a physician's release
    ● Cough associated with fever or continuous unrelieved cough
    ● Cold symptoms associated with other signs of illness
    ● Sore or inflamed throat associated with fever**
    ● Vomiting or diarrhea***
    ● Undiagnosed skin eruptions or rashes
    ● Known or suspected communicable disease during the contagious period
     
    *The student must be fever free (without medication) for 24 hours before returning to school.
    ** Students with strep infections may return to school after they have been on antibiotic treatment 24 hours minimum AND are fever free.
    ***Students with vomiting and/or diarrhea will be excluded from attending school until they are symptom-free (without medication) for at least 24 hours
     
    If your student is diagnosed with a casual-contact communicable disease please inform the school immediately so that appropriate mitigation strategies can be implemented.