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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Because GDS cares deeply about the health and well-being
of its students, because the School is committed to providing a healthy learning and working environment for all, because inappropriate decisions about drugs and alcohol endanger both the students who use them and those with whom they come in contact, because drugs and alcohol can severely impair their academic performance as well as encumber their lives with the devastating burden of addiction, and because this behavior is against the law,
it is the School’s policy that students are expressly prohibited from undertaking any of the following activities:

a. Attending school or school-sponsored activities under the
influence of illicit drugs or alcohol;

b. Using drugs or alcohol in school, at school-sponsored activities, or in the School’s environs;

c. Distributing, buying, selling, possessing, exchanging, or facilitating the exchange of drugs or alcohol in school, at school-sponsored activities, in the School’s environs or elsewhere.

If a student is caught committing any of the offenses set forth above, serious consequences will result. Absent extraordinary mitigating circumstances, the sale or distribution of drugs (prescription or non prescription) or alcohol in school, at school-sponsored activities, or in the School’s environs will result in expulsion or suspension. Other infractions of the policy regarding drugs and alcohol will result in probation, suspension or expulsion, the severity of which will be proportionate to the offense. However, repeated instances of any prohibited behavior will result in expulsion or long-term suspension.[/quote]

Nice verbiage.  As they say, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating."  Again, several years ago students on a school sponsored and school chaperoned trip to New Orleans to do post-Katrina clean-up work were caught smoking marijuana.  It was reported to the school and nothing happened.  At all.  No disciplinary consequences whatsoever.  The rest of the student body was well aware of this and it has encouraged the view that the school not only deliberately looks the other way, but will not act on drug-related suspicions or even in confirmed cases.  It is what it is; good academic school that does have more drug use than the other privates (although all have some).  [/quote]

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