If your child is going home with or being picked up by someone else, please send a note to the teacher. You may also call the director and give verbal permission if your plans change during the morning. All parents experience those mornings when we just do not know if our child is sick enough to stay home. Maybe these guidelines will be helpful. Never send a child who has had nausea, diarrhea, or fever within the past 24 hours.
Colds seem to present the biggest dilemma because they last so long.
Usually a cold will last about a week, but the child may not feel bad for the whole time. Probably the child is most infectious in the beginning stages of the cold when the nose is drippy and she is sneezing and coughing. Even though your child might not feel very bad at this stage it is probably when he needs to stay home, in the interest of the other children. This cuts down on contagion a great deal. Also teach your child to sneeze and cough into the crook of the arm and not the hand since the hands pass along many germs.