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[quote=Anonymous]Former clinic room aide here. I nearly always took a T as per protocol. Thermometer is consistently used for just about every sick visit. All action steps are documented electronically (so I’d note T99.8, etc.).

We aren’t prosecuting scofflaws, nor tracking via attendance (consider size of some of our elementary schools) and there’s not a cross-reference system in place. So, your fevered kid may certainly darken the doors of school the following day with a fever, diarrhea, vomiting and technically could stay in school.

In ES, it’s typically the classroom teacher who looks askance at the student (“she has a cough”) or observes “unusual” behavior (“he fell asleep in science”) or “he seems off” and will send the kid down for a T check. No temp, can go right back to class. In FCPS fever is (low grade) 100.4 and going home if rechecks  every 20 minutes continue to show same reading or higher.

Idea is fever=contagious. 24 hour fever and/or diarrhea and/or vomiting free is on honor system. Some parents would calculate to the minute or hour and announce they’ll have DC back at school the following day to the exact minute - and they did.

Can’t win.[/quote]

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