**JLCC - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES** **Last Updated Date:** 05/27/2014 **Adoption Date:** 01/10/2006 If any child is found to be suffering from any disease or disability, appropriate school personnel shall notify the parent or guardian. A child showing signs of ill health or of being infected with a disease dangerous to the public health as defined in accordance with section six of chapter one hundred and eleven shall be sent home immediately. The superintendent of schools shall immediately cause the board of health to be notified of all children excluded under this section by reason of any disease dangerous to the public health. A child infected, or in a household where a person is infected, with a disease dangerous to the public health as defined in accordance with section six of chapter one hundred and eleven, or in a household exposed to contagion from any such disease in another household, shall not attend any public school while he/she is so infected or remains in a household where such infection or exposure exists if the regulations of the board of health require such exclusion. A child returning to school after having been absent on account of such infection or exposure shall present a certificate from the board of health or its duly appointed agent that the danger of conveying such disease by such child has passed; provided, that if such a child returns to school without such a certificate after having been absent on account of such infection or exposure, he/she shall immediately be referred to a school physician for examination and, if it is found by such physician upon such examination that such danger has passed, he/she may remain at school. **Policy References:** LEGAL REFS.: M.G.L. 6:111; 71:55; 71:55A; 71:56