FILE: JGC

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES

All principals and teachers shall cooperate with the Superintendent and Lee County Health Department in enforcing laws and regulations designed to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of school children.

All pupils are required to have tuberculin tests as recommended and provided by the Lee County Health Department and/or the State Board of Health.

The Superintendent shall cause to be developed procedures for dispensing medications to handicapped children/youth and other children who require medications prescribed by a physician.

Printed materials relative to the treatment of head lice will be made available to every parent of a child in grades K-6, and appropriate procedures shall be developed for identifying and dealing with infested children.

Communicable/infectious Diseases or Conditions

Students and/or employees in the school district and children wishing to enroll in the district and who have communicable diseases will be assisted on an individual basis.  It is the desire of the Board to protect any student and/or employee who has a disease or handicapping condition, communicable or not, while protecting all other students and employees in the system.

Administrators or supervisors will report all cases of confirmed or suspected communicable diseases to the Central Office so that efforts can be coordinated with the Lee County Health Department or other professionals as needed.  If an employee or student who is remaining at work or in school endangers the health and welfare of others, a Placement Committee will evaluate immediately the situation to determine appropriate action for that person’s welfare as well as the welfare of others.

ADOPTED: August 13, 2002.

REVISED: June 11, 2003

LEGAL REF: Code of Alabama 16-1-30