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members, and all other employees of the school district shall be particularly alert to possible situations, circumstances, or events which might include hazing. If hazing or planned hazing is discovered, involved students shall be informed by the discovering school employee of the prohibition contained in this policy and shall be required to end all hazing activities immediately. Administrators, faculty members, students, and all other employees who fail to abide by this policy may be subject to disciplinary action and may be liable to civil and criminal penalties in accordance to the Ohio law. In addition, this policy shall be incorporated into building, staff, and student handbooks and shall be the subject of the discussion at employee staff meetings or in-service programs. Ohio Revised Code 2307.44 or 2903.31.
RULE Q - Extortion - A student shall not engage in any action or threat that forces or attempts to force a person to pay money, or give material possessions or property, or to perform services that are not due to him/her.
RULE R - Student Use of Transportation Vehicle - A student shall not misuse a transportation vehicle while on school property or at school activities off school property. Examples of misuse include: speeding, unauthorized occupancy, reckless operation, and illegal parking.
RULE S - Possession of a Firearm - A student shall not possess or bring a firearm to a school operated by the Board or on to any other property owned or controlled by the Board, to an Interscholastic Competition, an extracurricular event, or any other school program or activity.
Firearm has the same meaning as provided pursuant to the “Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994.” At the time this policy was adopted, the above referenced statute defined a firearm as any weapon (including a starter gun) which will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; including the frame or receiver of any such weapon; and any firearm muffler or silencer; or any destructive device. A firearm does not include: an antique firearm; a rifle that the owner intends to use solely for sporting and recreational or cultural purposes; any device that is neither designed or redesigned for use as a weapon; any device, although originally designed as a weapon, redesigned as a signaling, pyrotechnic, line throwing, safety or like device, surplus ordnance, sold, loaned, or given by the Secretary of the Army, or Class C common fireworks. If the definition of a firearm as provided by the “Fund Free Schools Act of 1994” changes, then the definition set forth in this policy shall automatically change to conform to it.
RULE T - Possession of a Knife - A student shall not possess or bring a knife to a school operated by the Board, to an Interscholastic Competition, an extracurricular event, or any other school program or activity. Knife, for
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