River Dell High School Health Office

Sick Day Guidelines

If your student wakes up and is experiencing minor symptoms, it is often difficult to decide whether or not your child is sick enough to stay home from school.  Please use these guidelines to assist with determining when to keep your student home.

  1. Fever of 100.4° Fahrenheit or higher

  2. Nausea

  3. Frequent coughing

  4. Persistent runny nose/nasal discharge

  5. Diarrhea and vomiting

  6. Persistent pain (ear, stomach)

  7. Widespread rash

Contact

Krista Van Wettering

RN BSN CSN

School Nurse

(201) 599-7237

Reporting an absence

Daily attendance at school is important. If you must be absent, a parent/guardian must inform the school of that absence within 24 hours of the absence. Parents have several ways to notify the school if a student is absent:

1.  Call the attendance office in the morning 201-599-7211 in advance of the absence.

2.  Email Ms. Ioele at Email Lynn Ioele

3.  Log into your Genesis Parent Portal by 9:00am for the current day How to Notify Attendance Office

FAILURE TO DO ANY OF THE ABOVE REQUIRES A NOTE TO ACCOMPANY THE STUDENT ON THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN TO SCHOOL AFTER THE ABSENCE.

Parents/guardians can view their child’s daily attendance, grades and discipline by visiting the Genesis Parent Portal. Class attendance is taken every period, and if a student is unaccounted for, the teacher will mark that student UNVERIFIED, which becomes an unexcused absence in 24 hours, unless a parent/guardian sends a note to school on the day the student returns.