The Board of School Trustees recognizes that control of the spread of communicable disease spread through normal school contact is essential to the well-being of the school community and to the efficient Corporation operation.

For purposes of this policy, "casual-contact, communicable disease" shall include diphtheria, scarlet fever and other strep infections, whooping cough, mumps, measles, rubella, or others designated by the Indiana Department of Public Health.

In order to protect the health and safety of the students, Corporation personnel, and the community at large, the Board shall follow all State statutes and Health Department regulations which pertain to immunization and other means for controlling communicable disease spread through normal interaction in the school setting.

On the recommendation of the school nurse, the teacher may remove from the classroom and the building administrator may exclude from the building or isolate in the school any student who appears to be ill or has been exposed to a communicable disease, except that the teacher or principal may act independently if the school nurse is not present in the building when the decision needs to be made.

The protocol for persons with skin integrity issues must be followed if an athletic trainer, athletic director, event sponsor, teacher, clinic assistant or school nurse learns that a student or participant in an event, function or program may expose others to a potentially infectious area.

The Superintendent shall develop administrative guidelines for the control of communicable disease which shall include:

I.C. 20-34-3-9

Revised 12/10/07