School Health Clinics
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Rockdale County Public Schools' employs a either a Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, or clinic assistant in each school in order to keep students healthy and attending school. Communicable or infectious diseases are not uncommon in school-age children. Communicable means easily spread to others. For this reason, if your child is suspected of having a communicable disease, it is sometimes necessary that we send them home to prevent spread of the disease throughout the school. Please be aware that a child presenting with a temperature of 100.4 degree or greater, vomiting more than once, having a runny nose with greenish drainage, or having a persistent cough will be sent home. Please contact the nurse or clinic aide at your child's school should you have any questions or concerns regarding your child's health. Georgia's immunization requirements for students entering or transferring into the eleventh grade have been revised to align with the current recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Effective July 1, 2021, children 16 years of age and older, who are entering the 11th grade (including new entrants), must have received one booster dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4), unless their initial dose was administered on or after their 16th birthday. Scoliosis Screening
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