Kearney Elementary

Providing a safe and healthy environment requires establishing policies and procedures for handling childhood illness. It is unlawful for any child to attend a public school in this state while afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, or while liable to transmit such disease after having been exposed. We reserve the right by law to require your child to see a physician and be excluded from school, so long as there is any liability of such disease being transmitted to other students.

A student should not be in attendance and may be sent home with any of the following:

• Temperature 100.4 degrees or greater
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Difficulty breathing, rapid or slowed breathing that is uncontrolled
• Sore throat and/or trouble swallowing
• Symptoms related to possible communicable diseases:
  • Suspicious skin rashes
  • Suspicious open wounds
  • Redness of eyes or eyelids with intense itching/burning and thick or crusty drainage
  • Painful, reddened sore throat accompanied by enlarged lymph nodes
  • Constant cough accompanied by other symptoms
  • Severe coughing, including, but not limited to, high-pitched breathing sounds, “barky-like” sounding cough, turning blue or red in the face
• Excessive drainage from the ears, persistent earache, or ears that show symptoms when assessed with an otoscope
• Serious physical injury
• Symptoms of an acute illness/injury are making it difficult for the student to fully participate in learning:
  • Exhaustion (can’t stay awake in class)
  • Pain that is difficult to control in the school environment
  • Limited mobility related to an injury that has not been evaluated by a physician
  • Students with live head lice or nits ¼ of an inch or less from the scalp

Smart Snack Standards

Snacks provided for the classroom must meet Smart Snack Standards and MUST be approved by the building nurse. Individual snacks must always be peanut and tree-nut-free, including coconut. In addition, the product cannot be manufactured or processed in a facility that manufactures or processes nut products due to the risk of cross-contamination.

Find out if a food or beverage meets the standards by visiting the Smart Snack Calculator.

Elementary Birthday Celebrations

For allergy precautions, class sets of cookies are available for purchase from the district’s contracted food service vendor or non-food items will be accepted for individual birthday celebrations.

Food Service Vendor Info:

• Food Service Southwest Food Excellence
• Phone: 816-628-3869

The following forms require parental consent. Some also require a physician’s medical plan and signature.

Medication Forms

• Medication Administration (Required for all prescription and/or over-the-counter medications.)
• Ages 12 Over the Counter Acetaminophen & Ibuprofen Administration
• Self-Carry – Asthma Medication
• Self-Carry – Diabetic Medication & Supplies
• Self-Carry – Anaphylaxis Medication

Health Condition Forms

• General Medical Health Form (required upon enrollment and yearly)
• Asthma:
  • Asthma Action Plan
• Diabetes:
  • Diabetes Medical Management Action Plan

Food Allergies

• Allergy/Anaphylaxis Action Plan (English)
• Allergy/Anaphylaxis Action Plan (Spanish)
• Special Meals Form
• Allergy Safe Zone Seating Option for Cafeteria

Seizures

• Seizure Action Plan
• Parent Questionnaire for Students with Seizures