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Health
Information and Safe-to-School
Program
Safe-to-School
Attendance Hotline: (301) 725-9250
H1N1
Update
Parents are encouraged to refrain from sending students to school if they have flu like symptoms, which include a fever, cough and or sore throat. Students should not return to school until they are symptom and medicine free for 24 hours. A fever is defined as 100°F or 37.8°C. The Howard County Public Health Department provided these guidelines.
For more information, please refer to the following website:
http://www.hcpss.org/pandemic/2009Flu_Guide_for_Parents.pdf
H1N1
Clinics and Events (Howard County Department of
Health)
Howard
County Public School Absenteeism Rates
Change in
Reporting Student Illness
This school year, schools are being asked to
collect more information about student
illnesses. As part of the Health Department's
tracking of Influenza Like Illness in Howard County,
schools are required to report numbers of student
illnesses and symptoms.
If your child is
absent from school, please contact the school using
the Hammond Attendance
Hotline (301) 725-9250
or send an email to hesabsence@hcpss.org
on the first day of the absence and provide the
following information:
- Your
child's name
- The
date
- Symptoms
of influenza like illness: (i.e. fever greater
than 100 degrees F, cough, sore throat)
An
absence note is still required for every absence
within 24 hours of the child returning to school.
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Students must be fever free without medication for
24 hours
before returning to school.
The
PTA Sponsored SAFE-TO-SCHOOL
program ensures that all our children are accounted
for each day. If your child will be absent or late
(sick, doctor's appointment, etc), we ask that you
call the Hammond Attendance
Hotline (301) 725-9250
by 9:30 am and leave a message. Leave the date, your
child's name, teacher, grade, why they are absent
and when you expect them back in school.
In
addition to calling the SAFE-TO-SCHOOL
HOTLINE,
you MUST
SEND A NOTE
regarding your child's absence the first day of
their return to school. If a note is not received
within two days of your child's absence they will be
marked unlawful or truant.
The
Safe-to-School program desperately needs your help to ensure that all of
our children arrive "safe to
school." We have a chairperson to
coordinate scheduling; now we need a few folks
willing to give only 15-20 minutes of time around
9:30-9:45am; when you can spare it. Whether it's
once a week, once a month, once a quarter, or one
week straight and done, whatever time you choose you
give will help a valuable program protect our kids.
Scheduling options are flexible. Any help is
appreciated.
Hammond Elementary School 8110 Aladdin Drive, Laurel, MD 20723
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