Employment

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From the LWHS Employee Handbook: 9-C. Code of Conduct for Adult/Student Interaction

In order to best serve the well-being of the school’s students and to avoid confusing communications and prevent a claim of sexual misconduct, the school requires all employees and other adults in the school’s community to maintain appropriate boundaries in their relationships with students. In doing so, all employees are expected to adhere to the following guidelines. Note, this code of conduct applies to all current students as well as any recent alum.

• Do not friend or connect with students on social media, other than in groups necessary to do your job.
• Avoid telephone calls or text conversations with individual students unless necessary for student safety while off campus for a class or other school sponsored activity. If texting is necessary please include another adult in the messaging. Emailing from your school account is preferred when conversing with individual students.
• Avoid communications with others containing inappropriate information if there is likelihood the receiving party will share it with a student, for example, sending content to a former student who is likely to share it with a current student.
• If you find yourself alone in a space with a student, make sure that the space is visible to the public or that the door is open; otherwise, move to a more public location. If a space with adequate visibility is not available, find another adult to be present. When a student’s privacy needs to be preserved and no appropriate location is available, consider delaying the meeting.
• Do not drive individual students.
• Do not meet with individual students off campus, over coffee, socially or otherwise.
• Do not touch or hug students in private locations and do not touch students in areas that would normally be covered by a bathing suit (breast, buttocks or groin.) Avoid a full frontal hug, always defer to a side shoulder hug, if a hug is appropriate.
• Respect a student’s rights not to be touched or looked at in ways that make them feel uncomfortable.
• Avoid sharing or inquiring about overly personal details about a student’s private relationships.
• Avoid giving gifts of a personal nature to individual students.
• As with anyone in the school’s community, do not share jokes with students that, whether sexual, cultural or otherwise, might be considered inappropriate.
• Inform an administrator of any activity that you observe between an adult and a student that appears to be inappropriate.
• The school has the right to investigate adult compliance with this code of conduct even if no report has been made.