3.4.14. Prohibited Devices, Substances and Activities – Additional Gr 7-12 Info

*This handbook section supplements the Prohibited Devices, Substances and Activities section in the CHCA Wide Guidelines of this handbook with age-appropriate discussion.

Devices and Substances – Additional detail

• Explosives: Possession, use or threat of bombs or any explosive device
• Fireworks
• Firearms or Other Weapons including: a knife, club, gun, stun gun, chemical irritant, or other deadly weapon
• Sexually Oriented Materials including: pornography in any form
• Tobacco Products including: cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff, smokeless tobacco, hookah, electronic cigarettes, vapor cigarettes, or any other product intended to be inhaled or otherwise ingested.
• Alcohol and/or illegal, prescription, over-the-counter drugs

Activities – Additional detail for Gr 7-12

These activities on school property or at any school related activities are expressly forbidden.

• Leaving a School Sponsored Event: Students may not leave school sponsored events (including, but not limited to, dances, field trips, and class outings) before scheduled dismissal without a written request by parents submitted to, and approved by, event sponsor, teacher, or building Principal
• Sale, Possession, Use, Concealment, Transfer, Delivery, or Be under the Influence of Illegal or Prescription Drugs and/or Alcohol
• Inappropriate Communication: Cursing, swearing, or other inappropriate verbal and written communication is not allowed. This includes offensive gestures, racial slurs, vulgar language, suggestive or offensive clothing, taking the Lord’s name in vain or general inappropriate conversation.
• Inappropriate Use of Social Media
• Sexting: Sending, sharing, or possessing sexually explicit or suggestive text or email messages, photos, or images via a cell phone, computer, or other digital device.
  • Students are required to immediately report any such activities to a teacher or a school administrator.
  • Students engaged in such activities are subject to state laws in addition to school discipline, dependent on the following:
    • 1) what was sent (sexual language, sexually suggestive images and/or video, sexually explicit images and/or video, and whether images and/or video are generic or of CHCA community members)
    • 2) to whom the material was sent (sexual content exchanged between willing participants, an unwilling participant, to third parties about another person),
    • 3) intent (engaging another student sexually, harassing/aggressive behavior against another student, defaming/slandering another student to third parties).
  • CHCA will contact local law enforcement and those authorities may file charges.
• Sexual Crimes
  • Includes but is not limited to forced sexual contact or sexual imposition according to the Ohio Revised Code
  • CHCA will contact local authorities and those authorities may file charges
• Sexual/Intimate Activity with a Willing Partner: Engaging in sexual or intimate activity with a willing partner on school property or at a school related activity