We applaud your efforts to get your children to school as many days as possible but there will be days when that is not a good idea for both the health of your child or the other students.
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Before COVID-19, this was our usual reference for staying out of school...
LVISD likes their students to stay home until they have had 24 hours free of vomiting or fever (of 100 degrees or more without needing medicine to bring the fever down.) This is your child's best chance to heal quickly and our best defense against contagious illnesses running all through the school.
Our guidelines for being sent home or for staying home have been referred to as The 5 B's: The names aren't elegant but the kids like them...
Baking - Having a temperature of 100 degrees or more.
Bleeding - Needing stitches
Barfing - Vomiting
Broken - Can't walk safely, even with crutches
Blatantly miserable - Sometimes there isn't a real measurement but if your child can't concentrate because they are constantly coughing, achy, wrung out... I'll call and let you decide...
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Since COVID-19, the rules have changed.
The rules are based on guidance coming from Austin-Travis County Health Department (ATCHD) and Texas Education Agency (TEA.)
TEA & ATCHD update their guidance as the COVID-19 situation changes so this list may be adjusted from time to time.
Click here to go to ATCHD's COVID-19 information page
Click here to view ATCHD's latest guidelines
Click here to view TEA's latest guidelines
This is as of Sept 1, 2020
- Fever (100 degrees or more) or chills
- Sore Throat
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Muscle or body aches
- New severe headache
- New loss of taste or smell
- Runny nose or congestion
- Diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain
- New uncontrolled cough that causes difficulty breathing (for persons with chronic asthma/allergic cough, a change from their usual)
ANY ONE OF THESE SYMPTOMS REQUIRES ISOLATION FROM ALL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE HOME AS WELL AS FROM OTHERS INSIDE THE HOME.
CLICK ON "COVID ISOLATION vs QUARANTINE" TAB ON THE LEFT COLUMN'S LIST TO LEARN MORE