5141.1

Policy

Students

Conduct

Drug and Alcohol Policy and Drug-Free Schools

The Ashland-Greenwood Public Schools recognizes that the manufacture, use, and possession, distribution, or being under the influence of a controlled substance, illicit drugs, or alcohol illegally or improperly constitutes a hazard to the positive development of students and a substantial interference with school purposes.

1. Students are prohibited from the unlawful or improper manufacture, possession, use, distribution, or being under the influence of a controlled substance, illicit drugs, or alcohol.

2. The use of tobacco products is prohibited in all school buildings and all school vehicles.  Smoking shall also be prohibited in any area where school staff, students or members of the public may be present or may be affected by smoke, including without limitation the stands and bleachers of outdoor athletic fields and near the entry of school buildings.  For purposes of this policy, tobacco means any tobacco product (including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco), vapor products (such as e-cigarettes), alternative nicotine products, tobacco product look-alikes, and products intended to replicate tobacco products either by appearance or effect.

3. Disciplinary sanctions up to an including expulsion from school, or suspension from extra-curricular activities and referral for prosecution will be imposed upon students who violate the aforementioned standards of conduct. Sanctions for violation thereof may include the requirement that the student complete an appropriate rehabilitation program, counseling any range of other disciplinary action, including, but not limited to, suspension or expulsion from school and/or extra-curricular activities.

4. Students shall be advised through student publications and/or the student handbook about this policy and about drug and alcohol counseling and rehabilitation and re-entry programs available to students.

5. The Ashland-Greenwood Public Schools is determined to provide alcohol-free and drug-free schools.

6. Students shall be furnished with a copy of this policy.

7. Age appropriate developmentally based drug and alcohol education and prevention programs (which address the legal, social, and health consequences of drug and alcohol use and which provide information about effective techniques for resisting peer pressure to use illicit drugs and alcohol) for all students in all grades from early childhood level through grade twelve shall be developed.

8. Students shall be advised by written statements that use of any controlled substance, illicit drugs, and the unlawful possession of and use of alcohol is wrong and harmful.

This policy supplements and is in addition to all other policies, regulations, practices, and procedures related to improper or unlawful manufacture, possession, use, distribution, or being under the influence of a controlled substance, illicit drugs or alcohol.

Adopted: July 16, 1990

Revised: June 16, 2014