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Committee debates new drug-and-alcohol policy and a disciplinary rubric for Weston schools
Summary
The policy committee reviewed a revised district drug-and-alcohol policy and a proposed student conduct rubric modeled on other districts; discussion focused on definitions (including nicotine), search authority, off-campus conduct, and balancing disciplinary consequences with behavioral intervention and restorative approaches.
The Weston Board of Education Policy Committee discussed a revised drug-and-alcohol policy and a proposed student conduct rubric on June 3, focusing on how the district would define controlled substances, when school staff may search students or student property, and how off-campus behavior might trigger school discipline.
Tracy (staff member) described the packet: the district currently has administrative regulations without a matching policy, and the proposed change would repeal the existing regulation and adopt a policy based on the latest legislative updates in Connecticut and model language provided by the law firm Shumway ("Shipman" was referenced in the packet). Tracy said the updated policy "is incredibly clear that any sort of criminal behavior is completely…
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