Emergencies
Emergency School Closings
Should the Academy need to close due to building problems or inclement weather, it will be announced over radio station WTIC (1080 AM) and your local CBS television station. The school office will not call parents concerning weather-related closings.
When school is not yet open in the mornings, these announcements should be on the local stations by 7:00 a.m.
Communicable Diseases
Emmanuel Christian Academy desires to maintain a healthful school environment by instituting controls designed to prevent a spread of communicable diseases. The term "communicable disease" shall mean an illness which arises as a result of specific infectious agent which may be transmitted either directly or indirectly by a susceptible host or infected person or animal to other persons.
Any student or employee with a communicable disease for which immunization is required by law or is available shall be temporarily excluded from school while ill and during recognized periods of communicability. Students and employees with communicable diseases for which immunization is not available shall be excluded from school while ill. If the nature of the disease and circumstances warrant, Emmanuel Christian Academy may require an independent physician's examination of the student or employee to verify the diagnosis of the communicable disease. Emmanuel Christian Academy reserves the right to make all final decisions necessary to enforce its communicable disease policy and to take all necessary action to control spread of communicable diseases within the school. A teacher or administration official who reasonably suspects that a student or employee has a communicable disease shall immediately notify the school principal.
The reportable diseases include the following contagious diseases:
- chicken pox
- conjunctivitis (Pinkeye)
- fifth disease
- head lice
- hepatitis
- impetigo
- influenza ("the flu")
- measles
- mononucleosis
- mumps
- pneumonia
- rubella (German measles)
Sickness at School
A sickroom is provided for all students who become ill at school. Parents will be notified to come and pick up the student. Sickness is generally determined as a student who is running a fever or who is vomiting. Students who sustain minor injuries are referred to the school nurse for treatment. Students who receive more significant injuries may need to be picked up by their parents at school, in which case the school office will notify the parents.
Medications Policy
All medications are to be brought to the school office, and a medication form must be filled out by the parent and signed by the doctor in order for the office to dispense the medication. This will include aspirin or Tylenol®, as well as prescriptions from the doctor. Please be sure you leave the medicine in the pharmacy bottle. Do not transfer medicine to another container.
