Illness & Response

Should events beyond the control of the School, including, but not limited to, any fire, act of God, hurricane, tornado, flood, extreme inclement weather, explosion, war (including armed conflict), governmental action, act of terrorism, risk of infectious illness, epidemic, pandemic, shortage or disruption of necessary utilities (water, electricity, etc.), or any other event beyond the School’s control, occur, the School has the discretion to close the School and/or modify its operations, curriculum, schedules (including, without limitation, the provision of instruction on Saturdays and/or Sundays), length of school day, length of school year, and/or means of learning and teaching methods.  The family’s contractual financial obligations for tuition and fees remain in full force and effect.  Should the School close, the School’s duties and obligations shall be suspended immediately without notice until such time as the School, in its sole and reasonable discretion, may safely reopen.  If the School cannot reopen due to a force majeure event, the School is under no obligation to refund any portion of tuition paid. 

(School Handbook, pg. 27)

Please keep your child at home in the following circumstances:

• child is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms
• child tests positive for COVID-19
• child has been in close contact with a positive COVID-19 case.

Please Note: As we navigate these unprecedented circumstances together, "perfect" school attendance is not our concern or goal. Should illness or any concern about respiratory disease symptoms present themselves in your family, please know the School will support your decision to keep your child(ren) at home. Presbyterian School will excuse absences for any respiratory illness and work with students to make up missed assignments, tests, etc.

Please discuss any student health problems, including injury or illness, whether chronic or temporary with the School nurse and your child’s teacher. Any student who becomes ill or is injured at school will be evaluated and treated. Parents will be contacted to pick up students who in the judgment of the School nurse are too ill to remain at school. Please make sure the School has all requested medical information as well as the names and phone numbers of those to be contacted in case of an emergency. 

Isolated cases of communicable diseases within our community will be looked at on a case-by case basis. Inclusion or exclusion from school for the affected student or employee will be guided by the recommendations of the CDC and its affiliate, NIOSH, state and local health departments, and World Health Organization (WHO), and other agencies and resources as appropriate. 

Please notify the School office immediately if your child is diagnosed with a communicable disease such as seasonable influenza; tuberculosis; measles; chicken pox; mumps, scarlet fever, hepatitis A, C, and D; meningitis; antibiotic-resistant staph; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS); H1N1 Flu; Swine Flu; Avian Flu; Ebola; and novel coronavirus - COVID-19.  Lice, ringworm, pinworms, impetigo, pink eye, strep infection, hand, foot and mouth disease, mononucleosis, and other similar childhood illnesses. In the event a child contracts a contagious disease, a physician’s statement may be required before the child will be readmitted to class at the discretion of the School nurse. 

(School Handbook, pg. 14)