Morris School District
MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT
Morristown, New Jersey 07960

Policy
File Code: 5141
Monitored: X
Mandated: X
Other Reasons X
HEALTH

The board of education believes that good health is vital to successful learning. In order to help district pupils achieve and maintain good health, the board directs the Superintendent to develop a program of pupil health services which employs professional personnel and interacts with both parents/guardians and community health agencies. The program shall include but not be limited to:
  1. Employment of a medical inspector to perform those duties required by law, and to advise the Superintendent on all matters affecting the health of pupils;

  2. Provision of proper and adequate facilities, equipment and supplies for professional health personnel and other staff;

  3. Establishment of a system of pupil health records in compliance with state law;

  4. Development of a required curriculum in physical education, health, safety, and use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and anabolic steroids; recommendations for appropriate equipment and supplies to teach such courses;

  5. Development of rules and procedures to foster good pupil health, and dissemination of these rules and procedures to the staff;

  6. Development of a program to maintain the buildings, grounds, facilities and equipment of the district in sanitary condition in accordance with law;

  7. Development and enforcement of an eye protection program as required by statute and administrative code;

  8. A regular report to the board on progress and accomplishments in the field of pupil health;

  9. Health services to staff which support pupil health;

  10. Provision of emergency services for injury and sudden illness;

  11. Provision for required physical examinations and for encouragement of correction of defects through counseling pupils, parents/guardians and other concerning findings of health examinations;

  12. Procedures for readmission of pupils absent because of contagious disease.

  13. Development of all regulations and procedures necessary for evaluation of pupils suspected of being under the influence of drugs/alcohol, tobacco or anabolic steroids;
The operation of the pupil health program shall be at all times in compliance with the law.

Date: April 18, 1986
September 24, 2001 First Reading
October 8, 2001 Approved

Legal References:
N.J.S.A. 18A:16-6, -6.1 Indemnity of officers and employees against civil actions ...
N.J.S.A. 18A:35-4.6 through -4.8 Parents Right to Conscience Act of 1979
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-1 Employment of medical inspectors, optometrists and nurses; salaries; terms; rules
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-3 Lectures to teachers
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-4.3 Scoliosis; annual examination; notice to parents or guardians
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-5 Method of examination; notice to parent or guardian
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-6 In general
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-7, -8, -10, -11 Exclusion of pupils who are ill ...
N.J.S.A. 18A:40-23 et seq. Nonpublic school nursing services
N.J.S.A. 18A:40A-1 et seq. Substance abuse
N.J.S.A. 44:6-2 Maintenance by boards of education of clinics for indigent children
N.J.A.C. 6:8-4.9 School resources: finance and facilities
N.J.A.C. 6:29-1.1 et seq. Health, safety and physical education
See particularly:
N.J.A.C. 6:29-1.3, -1.5, -1.7, -2.2, -2.3, -2.4, -2.5, -4.1, -4.2
N.J.A.C. 6:29-8.1 et seq. Nursing services to nonpublic schools
N.J.A.C. 8:57 Communicable diseases
See particularly:
N.J.A.C. 8:57-2
N.J.A.C. 8:61-1.1 Attendance at school by pupils or adults Infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Plainfield Board of Education v. Cooperman, 105 NJ 587 (1987)
Manual for the Evaluation of Local School Districts (June 1993)

Possible Cross References:
*1410 Local units
1420 County and intermediate units
*3510 Operation and maintenance of plant
*3516 Safety
*3542 Food service
*4112.4 Employee health
*4131/4131.1 Staff development; inservice education/visitations/conferences
4151.2 Family illness/quarantine
*4212.4 Employee health
4251.2 Family illness/quarantine
5111 Admission
5125 Pupil records
5131 Conduct/discipline
5131.6 Drugs, alcohol, tobacco (substance abuse)
5141.1 Accidents
5141.2 Illness
5141.3 Health examinations and immunizations
5141.4 Child abuse and neglect
5141.21 Administering medication
5142 Pupil safety
5200 Nonpublic school pupils
6142.4 Physical education and health
6142.12 Career education

Cross References:
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Key Words
Health, Pupil Health, Student Health
 

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