Wet Clothing PK3 – 5th Grade

•    To maximize instruction time, the teacher will allow the student to change their wet clothes in the classroom restroom. The teacher will notify the parent. The teacher will send the wet clothes home in the bag that was provided by the parent for the dry clothes.

•    If the classroom doesn’t have a restroom, a staff member can accompany the student to the restroom where the student will change his/her clothes in the restroom.

•    If the child has wet his/her clothes, he or she will clean themselves with wipes, change their clothes, place their clothes in a bag and wash their hands before returning to the learning environment.

•    Most students should be able to change wet clothing by themselves. However, if the child needs assistance with zippers, buttons, belts or clasps, a staff person can assist with a minimal task, and then allow the child to remove the clothing by himself/herself.

•    If clothing is not provided and/or the child is unable to change by themselves, the parent will bring a change of clothes and change their child.                                                                                                                             

•    The child cannot be sent home on the bus or to after school day care with wet clothing.

Soiled Clothing PK3 – 5th Grade

•    If the child has soiled his/her clothes, and clothes are available to the student, they will be provided wipes and directed towards the closest bathroom for self-care.
o    Soiled clothing will be placed in a Ziplock bag in the student’s backpack to remain in the classroom. If odorous, then items can be stored outside the classroom in an airtight container.
o    The teacher will send the wet clothes home in the bag that was provided by the parents for the dry clothes.
o    If not picked up by parent or sent home with the student, soiled clothing will be discarded by end-of-business day to reduce communicable disease risks.

•    If clean clothes are not available or the student is unable to provide self-care, the parent will be called immediately by the educator and required to come and take care of the child’s personal needs as soon as possible. The child will await the parent in a campus designated area (not to include the clinic unless no other waiting areas, such as the front office hall near the lobby, are available) and be given the option to stand until the parent arrives. 
o    If a student waits in the clinic, they will be placed in the clinic bathroom until the parent arrives to maintain discretion.

•    The parent may take the child home to properly clean the child. The parent may return the student back to school once he/she is in clean clothes.

•    The child cannot be sent home on the bus or to after school day care with soiled clothing.

Students Who Are In Transition [Early Childhood Intervention (ECI), Early Education (EE), Early Childhood Special Education (ECSC), Special Education (SPED), Homeless Awareness & Responsive Program (HARP)]

•    The student is to wear pull-ups instead of diapers.

•    The parent is to send extra pull-ups, wipes, a change of clothes and grocery bags (to send wet clothes home in) labeled with the child’s name.

•    The procedures for wet/soiled pull-ups will be in accordance with the procedures for wet/soiled clothing listed above.

•    Parents of these scholars can consent (referenced below) to assistance with changing their children’s under garments and clothing when accidents are frequent and interfering with instructional time.

Personal care will be completed by an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) with an available administrator present unless services are identified as necessitating nursing assessment skills in the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP).