{"id":12459,"date":"2019-09-22T21:19:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T00:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2019-09-22T21:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T00:19:30","slug":"lhs-issues-letter-on-students-caught-vaping-on-school-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12459","title":{"rendered":"LHS issues letter on students caught vaping on school grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>After\n hearing concerns from parents regarding vaping inside and outside of \nLockview High School, the Fall River-based school\u2019s administration team \nhas sent home a letter to parents outlying the punishment going forward,\n beginning Sept. 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the letter, the LHS admin team says that \nthe \u201chealth and safety of our students is always a number one priority \nfor staff at Lockview High School.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast year, Lockview \nadministration had many meetings with our School Advisory Council, our \nschool community officer, numerous health officials, parents, staff and \nstudents about the ongoing and increase in tobacco and e-cigarette use \nby students,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cIn response to our collective concerns,\n the message to our students, parents, and community is that Lockview \nHigh is a smoke free property. This is in alignment with the Nova Scotia\n Smoke-Free Places Act and the Provincial Code of Conduct for Schools \nwhich states that use of tobacco and\/or e-cigarettes is considered \nunacceptable on school property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It continued on saying that in \nthe interest of supporting students and school safety, they will issue a\n suspension to students if they choose to smoke or vape inside the \nschool, and may, in certain circumstances include outside the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeginning\n September 23, students who smoke or vape inside school face an out of \nschool suspension for illegal activity,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cWith the \nsupport of our RCMP school liaison officer, Lisa Hartlen, a fine in the \namount of $410.00 plus applicable taxes will be issued as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs always, we will continue to work closely with students to make good choices with regards to vaping and tobacco use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n concluding, the letter asks that parents take a moment to have a \nconversation with their children about this important matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe thank you for your continued support in keeping Lockview High a smoke free environment,\u201d it ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: After hearing concerns from parents regarding vaping inside and outside of Lockview High School, the Fall River-based school\u2019s administration team has sent home a letter to parents outlying the punishment going forward, beginning Sept. 23. In the letter, the LHS admin team says that the \u201chealth and safety of our students is always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2,266,769,5,770],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-fall-river","tag-hrce","tag-letter","tag-lockview-high","tag-vaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}