Weapons Policy

The Columbia Union Education Code # 3510 (2005) states that, Seventh-day Adventist schools should be havens of safety for students and staff. All actual and look-alike weapons are banned from schools and school sponsored activities. Students possessing these articles should be immediately suspended with the intent to expel. All state laws should be followed.

A "weapon" is defined as any gun, stun-gun, firearm, bomb, smoke bomb, explosive or incendiary device, poison gas, Mace, pepper spray, or knife. "Weapon" also includes any device that is designed by its manufacturer or redesigned and/or altered by another for use as a weapon. "Weapon" also includes any device in a student's possession while at school, on school property, or at a school-sponsored function that the student intends to use as a weapon for the infliction of permanent or temporary bodily harm or harm to property. Refer to Page 13.