TO OUR STUDENTS AND PARENTS: - North Hunterdon-Voorhees ...

NOT TO SHARE THEIR HALL LOCKERS AND COMBINATIONS NUMBERS WITH OTHER
STUDENTS.
STUDENTS WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ARTICLES FOUND IN THEIR LOCKERS.
All lockers are emptied and thoroughly cleaned during the summer vacation. It is the student’s
responsibility to take home all articles of value. Those articles collected by the custodial staff during the
summer are given to non-profit organizations or discarded. Students may not be assigned the same lockers
the following school year.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE REGULATIONS
“Substance” means alcoholic beverages, controlled dangerous substances as defined at N.J.S.A. 24:21-2,
anabolic steroids, or any chemical or chemical compound that releases vapors or fumes causing a condition
of intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, or dulling of the brain or nervous system, including,
but not limited to, glue containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes as
defined at N.J.S.A. 2A: 170-25.9, or over-the-counter or prescription medications which are improperly
used to cause intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, or dulling of the brain or nervous system,
or any substance that can cause intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, or dulling or the brain or
nervous system.
1. Any professional staff member to whom it appears that a pupil may be under the influence of
alcoholic beverages or other drugs on school property or at a school function shall report the
matter as soon as possible to the Dean of Students, Principal, school nurse, substance
awareness coordinator or medical inspector. In the absence of the principal, his or her designee
shall be not notified, and in instances where the school nurse, medical inspector or the Principal
are not in attendance, the staff member responsible for the school function shall be immediately
notified.
2. The Principal or his or her designee shall immediately notify the parent or guardian and the
Superintendent and arrange for an immediate examination of the student by a school selected
physician or a physician selected by the parent or guardian, if that physician is not immediately
available, then by the medical inspector. The parent(s) or guardian(s) of the student are required
to pick up and accompany the pupil and transport them to the physician of their choice or the
emergency room of the nearest hospital for examination. If the parents(s) or guardian(s) are not
available, emergency services will be contacted to transport the student to the medical inspector or
nearest emergency room for medical examination. The Principal or his or her designee will meet
the student at emergency services at the hospital to await the arrival of the parents. Failure to
comply with this procedure will be considered a violation of the District Substance Abuse Policy
and the student will be suspended out-of-school for ten days.
3. If at the request of the parent or legal guardian, a physician other than the school selected
physician or the medical inspector conducts the medical examination, such examination shall not
be at the expense of the District Board of Education.
4. Provisions shall be made for the appropriate care of the pupil while awaiting the results of the
medical examination.
5. The examining physician shall furnish a written report of the medical examination to the parent or
guardian of the pupil, and the Principal or his or her designee within twenty-four hours.
6. If the written report of the medical examination is not submitted to the parent or guardian, and
Principal or his or her designee within twenty-four hours, the student shall be allowed to return to
school with a letter from the examining physician. The letter shall certify that substance abuse no
longer interferes with the pupil’s physical and mental ability to perform in school. With his letter,
the student will be allowed to remain in school until such time as a positive diagnosis of alcohol or
other drug use is received.
7. If there is a positive diagnosis from the medical examination, indicating that the student is under
the influence of alcoholic beverages or other drugs, the student shall be returned to the care of a
parent or guardian as soon as possible. Attendance at school shall not resume, following the
suspension, until a written report including a negative substance screen has been submitted to the
physician who has examined the student to diagnose alcohol or other drug use. This report shall