The Center For Disease Control has released new guidelines for how schools should deal with sick students and staff to reduce the spread of flu. Bancroft-Rosalie School will implement the following procedures when dealing with flu-like symptoms:
1. Students and staff with flu-like illness will be promptly sent home if they have a fever above 100 degrees. The school will take the students temperature via the ear using a ThermoScan.
2. Ill students and staff will be kept separate from well people until they can be sent home. They will be sent to a separate room and will be required to wear a surgical mask and the person who cares for them will also wear a protective mask.
3. Students can return to school after being ill if they have a temperature of less than 100 degrees for at least 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.
We wil not be cancelling school for illness.
