ANTI-HAZING POLICY
It is the policy of the Governing Board of Education of the Clermont County
Educational Service Center that hazing activities of any type are
inconsistent with the educational process and shall be prohibited at all
times. No administrator, faculty member, or other employee of the
Educational Service Center shall encourage, permit, condone, or tolerate any
hazing activities. No student, including leaders of student organizations,
shall plan, encourage, or engage in any hazing.
Hazing is defined as doing any act or coercing another, including the
victim, to do any act of initiation into any student or other organization
that causes or creates a substantial risk of causing mental or physical harm
to any person. Permission, consent, or assumption of risk by an individual
subjected to hazing does not lessen the prohibition contained in this
policy.
Administrators, faculty members, and all other employees of the Educational
Service Center shall be particularly alert to possible situations,
circumstances or events that 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. All hazing incidents
shall be reported immediately to the Superintendent.
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 for civil and criminal penalties in accordance with Ohio law.
The contents of this policy shall be distributed in writing to all students
and Educational Service center employees following its official adoption by
the Governing Board of Education. In addition, this policy shall be
incorporated into building, staff, and student handbooks, and shall be the
subject of discussion at employee staff meetings or inservice programs.
[Adoption date: June 21, 2001]
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