When to Keep a Child Home From School
If your student has ANY of the listed symptoms of COVID19, please keep the child home and refer to your primary care physician:
Bonner school recommends using the following guidelines for general illness:
24 Hour Rule:
If your student has ANY of the listed symptoms of COVID19, please keep the child home and refer to your primary care physician:
- Fever or chills
- Cough
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Fatigue
- Muscle or body aches
- Headache
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
Bonner school recommends using the following guidelines for general illness:
- Fever or chills (100.4 degrees F and above is considered a fever)
- Vomiting or diarrhea
- Symptoms that keep your child from participating in school, such as:
- uncontrollable cough
- frequent sneezing or thick nasal discharge they cannot manage themselves,
- bad sore throat
- Redness, swelling, itching, and/or drainage from eyes
- Minor colds are fine to come to school if your child can manage their symptoms and not spread the sickness to others.
24 Hour Rule:
- Fever: Keep your child home until his or her fever is gone for 24 hours without fever reducing medicine
- Vomiting or Diarrhea: Keep your child home for 24 hours after the last time they vomited or had diarrhea
- Antibiotics: Keep your child home until 24 hours after the first dose of antibiotic
Immunization Information
All students are required to provide proof of immunizations prior to the first day of school or at the time of registration. Immunization records can be brought by the office, mailed, or faxed. Follow the links below for more information on which immunizations and forms are required for school. ** There are new requirements regarding varicella (chicken pox) and Tdap effective October 1, 2015-16. Please click on the "Immunization Requirements" link below for details. **
The fax number for Bonner School: 406-258-6153.
Mailing address: Bonner School District #14, PO Box 1004, Bonner, MT 59823
All students are required to provide proof of immunizations prior to the first day of school or at the time of registration. Immunization records can be brought by the office, mailed, or faxed. Follow the links below for more information on which immunizations and forms are required for school. ** There are new requirements regarding varicella (chicken pox) and Tdap effective October 1, 2015-16. Please click on the "Immunization Requirements" link below for details. **
The fax number for Bonner School: 406-258-6153.
Mailing address: Bonner School District #14, PO Box 1004, Bonner, MT 59823
Lice Policy
Bonner School currently has a No Lice Policy. This requires any students found with live head lice to be sent home for immediate treatment with a pediculicide agent (such as Nix). The student must be screened by the school nurse or administration to ensure the student has been effectively treated before re-admittance to school. The school nurse will continue to work with the family after initial and follow up treatment to ensure the nits are removed and re-infestation does not occur.
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For more information on lice and how to treat it, please go to the Useful Links page.
Medication Policy
Students at Bonner School are not permitted to carry their own medications. If your child has been prescribed a medication by their doctor, ask if there is a schedule for taking the medication that will accommodate home - only administration. If this is not possible, please follow the guidelines below:
There are self carrying options for life saving medications such as inhalers and epinepherine. There is a separate medication form available that requires the same information and can be found at the same locations.
A standing order form is available for parents to sign if they would like for the school to be able to administer occasional comfort medications such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, tums, or benadryl. This form comes home at the beginning of the school year or can be downloaded on the Health Forms page. This form must be signed by the parent and on file at the school to administer any of these medications.
Students at Bonner School are not permitted to carry their own medications. If your child has been prescribed a medication by their doctor, ask if there is a schedule for taking the medication that will accommodate home - only administration. If this is not possible, please follow the guidelines below:
- Obtain a medication administration form from the front office, the school nurse, or download on the "Health Forms" page of the school nurse's website
- This form needs to be completed and signed by both the doctor and the parent. Return completed form to the school nurse (fax: 406 - 258 - 6153)
- Medication must be hand delivered by the parent to the school
- Medication must be contained in a duplicate medicine bottle correctly labeled with the following: student's name, name of medication, dosage, time given, frequency, name of prescribing practitioner, and dispensing pharmacy.
There are self carrying options for life saving medications such as inhalers and epinepherine. There is a separate medication form available that requires the same information and can be found at the same locations.
A standing order form is available for parents to sign if they would like for the school to be able to administer occasional comfort medications such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, tums, or benadryl. This form comes home at the beginning of the school year or can be downloaded on the Health Forms page. This form must be signed by the parent and on file at the school to administer any of these medications.