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Dear Parent/Guardian:

The following procedures should be followed when requesting school personnel to administer medication to your school child during school hours:

• The Union School District will cooperate with parents and their medical practitioners in giving prescribed medications when they must be given during school hours (e.g. failure to take such medication would jeopardize the health of the student or the student would not be able to attend school if the medication were not made available during school hours). To comply with a request, the parent or guardian must sign a district form giving written instruction for medication, permission for such administration, and relieve the Board and its employees of liability for administration of medication. The physician/dentist must also sign a district form(see attachment). The container for the medication, which is taken to school, shall be the container from the drugstore.
• The Parent and /or high school student should bring the completed medication forms and the medication to the school and give it to the appropriate school personnel (e.g. School Nurse, School Secretary or Building Principal). Send only enough medication to be taken at school for the duration of the prescription. Your pharmacist will, upon request, divide the prescription medication into two separate, labeled containers – one for home; the second for use at school. If the student is to only take one –half a pill, the medication should be cut at home.
• The medication shall be locked in a cabinet. Note: Prescribed asthma inhalers and epipens may be kept by the student and self-administered if the physician indicates this need in writing and considers the student sufficiently responsible. In addition, the physician should list any precautions to be followed on this form (the school nurse will inform the principal and appropriate others). The parent will also need to complete the asthma action plan and asthma inhaler self-administration agreement.
• School personnel will keep a record of the administration of medication and destroy unused medication which has not been picked up by the parent or guardian after the duration of the prescription.
• The parent/guardian of the child must assume the responsibility for informing the school of any change in the child’s health, or change in medication. A new medication form must be completed by the parent and physician with each change in medication or at the beginning of each school year.
• When available, the school nurse shall administer medication. In the absence or unavailability of the school nurse, the nurse will designate other appropriate personnel (RN, LPN) to be responsible for these duties. The school nurse will instruct or orient personnel designated to dispense any medication to any particular student.
• Non-prescription medications that may be given in a non-emergency situation are acetaminophen (such as Tylenol), tums, cough drops, Benadryl or ibuprofen, in accordance with the treatment protocol established by the school physician. All over the counter medications will be given by the nurse at her discretion. The parent must sign the authorization for over the counter medications on the student’s emergency information card and relieve the Board and its employees of liability for administration of the medications.
• A copy of the district medication forms have been attached for your convenience.
Please see the School Nurse or Building Secretary if you need additional forms. Thank You.


(Rev.3/10)

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Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s):

According to Pennsylvania Law, non-public school students are entitled to transportation to non-public schools as follows:

1.  A district which provides transportation for resident public school students must also make identical provisions for the transportation of resident non-public school students according to the non-public school’s calendar.
2. Transportation for non-public school students must be provided to and from the non-public school in which the student is enrolled, even if the non-public school is located outside the district, so long as the distance is not more than 10 miles beyond the district’s boundaries. (Note: This distance may be in excess of 10 miles from the student’s home.)
3. A district may transport students who live along hazardous routes even though the students live within walking distance of the school.
4. There may also be times when non-public or charter schools choose to go with a delayed opening and Union School District does not. When that happens, the Union School District will honor the request. Students will be transported according to the delayed schedule requested by the non-public or charter school.
5. If the Union School District is closed due to the weather or emergency conditions, transportation will not run, even if the non-public or charter school is open. If the Union School District has a two-hour delay, all Union School District non-public and charter school buses will run on the two-hour delay schedule.

If you believe you are eligible and would like to request transportation, please complete the Request for Transportation Under Act 372 form and return to your non-public school immediately.

This form should also be used to indicate an address change.

Non-Public Administrators/Designees:
Please forward the Act 372 form to Megan Hepler, Union School District Business Office, either via e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or fax at 814-473-8201.

Thank you,

Megan Hepler
Transportation Director
Union School District
814-473-6311 x 9

 

As part of the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) - School Health Screening Program, the Union School District Health Services Offices, complete annual growth screenings each school year. The DOH states, “Height and weight measurement shall be conducted at least once annually. Every effort shall be made to determine the pattern of growth for each child, so that his weight and height can be interpreted in light of his own growth pattern rather than those of his classmates.”

NOTE: The Department of Health BMI-for-age percentile categories match the CDC BMI-for-age percentile categories as follows:

• Underweight: < 5th percentile
• Healthy Weight: 5th - < 85th percentile
• Overweight: 85th - < 95th percentile
• Obese: =/> 95th percentile

 

For a copy of your child’s 2021-2022 school year Body Mass Index (BMI) report:

Please contact Mrs. Mary Sweeney, at UHS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or 814-473-3121, Ext. 1124.