Student Health

Medication & Allergies

Please complete the required forms forwarded via our QuickSchools platform to notify us of your student’s medical history, allergies, medications, etc. These forms all must be completed and signed by the first day of school in order for students to attend school.

The school cannot dispense any prescription or over-the-counter medicines including ibuprofen and acetaminophen unless families have completed and submitted these forms.

TREE Academy recognizes that there are a variety of conditions that necessitate students taking medication during the school day, and that in some cases students are adequately trained to self administer their medication. In all cases, the school will take action(s) based upon the recommendations and directions of the physician, with the authorization of families.

Illnesses / Injuries

Please prevent the spread of illness by keeping ill children home. If a student becomes ill during school hours, the teacher or office administration will determine whether to call you to pick up your child in a timely manner. If we suspect any injury to a student’s head, or if we feel compelled by the student’s condition to call an ambulance, or in any cases of a medical emergency, we will call for an ambulance. The fiscal responsibility for that ambulance, as well as any attendant care, will be the families, and not TREE Academy, its staff, faculty or personnel.

Should a student experience a fever of 99.9 or higher, please do not bring them back to school until they have been fever-free for a minimum of 24 hours. If your child has a rash, eye symptoms, runny nose with yellow or greenish mucus, persistent coughing, earache, vomiting or diarrhea, head lice, or a skin infection, please have them examined by a healthcare professional. When a child is sick, the family should inform the school that the child will not be attending school and the reason. If your child has a communicable illness such as chicken pox, strep throat, mumps or influenza A or B, please let the school know.

COVID-19 Precautions & Responses

TREE follows LA County Guidelines with CDC Guidelines also in consideration. For example, if there is a city-wide mask mandate, we will require community members to wear masks.

Because COVID-19 easily spreads throughout the community, we ask that all community members are vaccinated and up to date on boosters for COVID-19. If a community member is on campus and not feeling well, we will provide testing on an as-needed basis.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) now recommends the following actions to align with common practices of other respiratory viruses.

Staff and students with symptoms
If you have symptoms of acute respiratory infection:

Wear a mask, stay home and away from others, talk with your healthcare provider about treatment options, and test for COVID-19. Consider testing for flu in addition to COVID-19 if you are at high risk of severe illness. Testing is a prevention strategy that can assist in making decisions to further protect yourself and others.
If you test negative for COVID-19, stay home and away from others until fever-free for 24 hours without medication and your symptoms improve. If you test positive for COVID-19, see safety measures in the next section.
When returning to normal activities, take added precaution such as practicing good hygiene, taking additional steps to improve ventilation, and wearing a mask when around others. This is especially important to protect people at higher risk of getting very sick from respiratory viruses.

Staff and students with COVID-19
1. Stay home and away from others.

COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus that spreads rapidly, especially when an infected individual feels sick.
If symptomatic or feverish, stay home until:
Fever-free for 24 hours without medication, and
Other symptoms are mild or improving.
Asymptomatic individuals must wear a high-quality mask for 10 days after testing positive if they remain on campus.
Masks are required around others for 10 days after a positive test or symptom onset. Early return is allowed only with consistent mask use.
It’s recommended to test before returning and to continue staying home if positive until day 10.

2. Wear a mask.

Masks can help reduce the spread of illness and protect people with increased risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses.
Wear a well-fitting, high-quality mask for 10 days from symptom onset or first positive test.
Masks can be removed sooner if an individual tests negative twice, 24 hours apart.

3. Tell close contacts.

Inform close contacts so they can take protective measures.

Virtual Learning

TREE Academy is a community that is built upon relationships and learning that is ideally achieved in person. Though we understand circumstances may arise that would allow virtual instruction to be preferred, this shift is very difficult for both students and teachers.

At this time, Virtual Learning will not be an option for students. The only exception is if we decide as a school to enact Virtual Learning due to public health mandates.