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First Aid and Illness:

If your child is absent due to illness, please call the school.

If a child becomes ill at school, parents or the designated emergency contact is notified.

First aid is provided to students with minor injuries. If the injury is serious, 911 is called. Parents will be notified.

Communicable diease conditions should be reported to the school.  Notices of the symptoms will be sent to students in the classroom (i.e.

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chicken pox, strep throat).

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Infectious Diseases in Childcare Settings and Schools  Information for Directors, Caregivers, Parents or Guardians, and School Health Staff , Sixth Edition, June

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2008.  Prepared by:  Hennepin County Community Health Department - Epidemiology and Environmental Health. 

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