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VISITORS AND VOLUNTEERS

All visitors, including parents, must report to the main office, sign in, and wear a visitor’s badge. Student visitors are not permitted.
Please park in the parking lot, not in front of the school or the No Parking Zone.
For security purposes and space limitations, visitors are not permitted in the commons during lunch periods. In addition,
non-Hudson middle school students are not permitted to shadow H.M.S. students.

WEAPONS

Board Policy: 5772
The Board of Education prohibits students from possessing, storing, making, or using a weapon, including a concealed weapon, in a
school safety zone and any setting that is under the control and supervision of the Board for the purpose of school activities approved
and authorized by the Board including, but not limited to, property leased, owned, or contracted for by the Board, a school-sponsored
event, or in a Board-owned vehicle.
The term "weapon" means any object which, in the manner in which it is used, is intended to be used, or is represented, is capable of
inflicting serious bodily harm or property damage, as well as endangering the health and safety of persons. Weapons include, but are
not limited to, firearms, guns of any type whatsoever, including air and gas-powered guns (whether loaded or unloaded), knives, razors,
clubs, electric weapons, metallic knuckles, martial arts weapons, ammunition, and explosives.
Policy exceptions include:

A. items pre-approved by the building principal as part of a
class or individual presentation under adult supervision, if
used for the purpose and in the manner approved (working
firearms and any ammunition will never be approved as a
part of a presentation);

B. theatrical props used in appropriate settings.

Students shall report any information concerning weapons and/or threats of violence by students, staff members, or visitors to District
personnel. Failure to report such information may subject the student to disciplinary action.
This policy shall be implemented through the Code of Conduct/Student Discipline Code, Policy 5610, and Policy 5610.01, and through
administrative guidelines.
The Superintendent will refer any student who violates this policy to the student's parents or guardians and to the criminal justice or
juvenile delinquency system. The student may also be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion.
This policy will be published annually in all District student and staff handbooks. Publication is not a precondition to enforcement of this
policy.

R.C. 2923.12, 2923.122, 3313.20, 3313.66, 3313.661
18 U.S.C. 921, 20 U.S.C. 8922, 20 U.S.C. 7151
Adopted 8/1/09

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