GISD Policy: Students should not attend school in the following circumstances:

• Chills, cough, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, body aches, headache, new loss of taste/smell. 

• Diarrhea (3 or more episodes of loose stools in 24 hours). A child must be diarrhea free for 24 hours without the use of diarrhea suppressing medications.

• Vomiting two or more times in 24 hours, unless a physician feels the cause of vomiting is not an infectious disease and the child is in no danger of becoming dehydrated. A child should have one or two meals without vomiting before returning to school. Your child may be sent home from school for vomiting one time.

• Temperature of 100 degrees or above. A child must have temperature below 100.4 degrees for 24 hours before returning to school without taking a fever reducing medication.

• Questionable rash until a physician has determined the rash is not caused by an infectious disease.

• Known communicable disease must be treated for the appropriate amount of time as directed by a physician. 

• Recommendation of a physician or school nurse.
• PLEASE SEE COVID STUDENT PROCESS MAP FOR ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO COVID CASES.