Health and Safety
Health
When to Keep Your Child at Home
If your child is ill, please keep them home from school. Students who are not feeling well are not able to learn.
Keep your child home when he or she:
- has a fever higher than 100.4 or greater degrees
NOTE: Students may not return until fever free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medication. - is vomiting
- has diarrhea
- has strep throat
- has an acute rash
- has an eye infection
- has head lice
- has the flu or flu like symptoms
- have been in the hospital
Your child is ready to go back to school when he or she:
- is fever free without the assistance of fever reducing medication such as Tylenol or Advil for 24 hours. A note from parent/guardian or doctor.
- if free from vomiting for 24 hours. A note from parent/guardian or doctor.
- has been free from diarrhea for 24 hours. A note from parent/guardian or doctor.
- strep throat - has been fever free without the assistance of fever reducing medication for 24 hours and completed at least 24 hours of treatment. A doctor's note permitting return to school.
- is free from rash, itching, and fever. A note from parent-guardian or doctor.
- eye infection - is free from drainage and evaluated by a doctor if needed. Completed at least 24 hours of treatment. A note from parent/guardian or doctor.
- has treated with appropriate lice treatment and live head lice are no longer present. A note from parent/guardian or doctor.
- flu or flu like symptoms - fever free without the assistance of fever reducing medication for 24 hours, and it has been at least five days from diagnosis. A doctor's note permitting return to school.
- A copy of discharge instructions and/or doctor's note permitting a return to school with general instructions.
Safety
Our #1 goal is to ensure that at Trussville City Schools is a safe environment for our Huskies. To do this, we hold a variety of safety drills throughout the year. Safety drills enhance school safety by allowing students and staff to understand proper emergency procedures outside of a crisis situation.
TCS will participate in the following drills throughout the year.
- Fire Drill: Students and staff practice exiting the building in case of a fire.
- Tornado Drill: Students and staff take safety position ... in case of a tornado.
- Intruder Drill: Students and staff will be training, practicing, and drilling the protocol.
Open Gate Metal Detection System
Staff will use Open Gate Metal Detectors to check students and their materials/backpacks as they enter the building.
Medication Guidelines
The Alabama Department of Education has recently made some updates regarding medication at school. Please review the updated Parent/Prescriber Authorization Form (PPA) and our TCS Medication Guidelines. Changes to note include:
- All medications, prescription and over the counter (OTC), require a Parent/Prescriber Authorization Form (PPA) with a parent's signature. Prescription medications or any medications that are not FDA approved also require a prescriber signature as well as a parent's signature.
- The Parent/Prescriber Authorization Form (PPA) has been updated. Please use the updated form for any medication to be given at school. There will be a grace period for use of the previous version of the PPA for those who have already obtained signatures on that version. If you have already obtained a prescriber signature on the outdated version of the form for this school year, you do not need to resubmit a new form until your signed form expires.
- TCS school nurses will no longer be able to keep Over The Counter (OTC) medications at school for longer than a period of ten school days without a prescriber signature. OTC medications to be kept at school for ten school days or less do not require a prescriber signature.
- Please review the Medication Guidelines document for other important information and contact your school nurse if you have questions or need assistance.