If your kid is old enough for kindergarten in Monongalia County and you still haven’t registered for fall, you have one more chance to make the grade.
Registration by appointment will be Aug. 12 at the district’s Westover Annex, 200 W. Park Ave., Westover.
Children who turned 5 on or before June 30 are eligible, Susan Haslebacher said.
Haslebacher is the district’s head nurse and school health services supervisor who is helping oversee registration.
To make an appointment, call Pam Spooner at 304-291-9210, Ext. 1541.
The first day of school for kindergarten and grades 1-12 is Aug. 20.
Haslebacher said the district traditionally holds a catch-all day for kindergarten registration to accommodate busy lives and an ever-changing demographic that sets Monongalia County apart from most other West Virginia counties.
“We always have new families moving in,” she said.
A study by the Pew Charitable Trust put numbers to that statement in a population study it ran here charting a 10-year span, from 2007 to 2017.
Mon’s population growth of 9.2% over the years of the study was second only to the 10.3% gain shown by Berkeley County in that same time frame.
The role of the school nurse in the 21st century has gone well beyond the Band-Aid, Haslebacher said.
“It gets pretty complex,” she said.
Besides the societal symptoms of the state’s deepening opioid crisis and generational poverty, school nurses must address the needs of students with diabetes, food allergies and other holistic concerns.
All vaccines must be current.
Four doses are required for the DTAP vaccine, with that final dose administered after your child’s fourth birthday.
The polio vaccine requires three doses, with the third coming after that fourth birthday, also.
Two doses apiece are required for the Varicella and MMR vaccines — and the first dose of both must come after your child’s first birthday.
The Hepatitis B vaccine requires three doses, with last dose at age 24 weeks, or older.
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