Safe and Secure Schools: Policy Development
The School Board was criticized for its role in maintaining, but keeping secret, a file on Ronald Wayne Archer (Ron Archer), a teacher convicted in 2000 of four charges relating to ongoing sexual abuse of his student. Members of the public believed that if the file had been disclosed to principals, the abuse could have been prevented. In May 2001, the School Board was working to create new policies to prevent this kind of abuse in future.
The Safe and Secure Schools policy was developed including a Code of Conduct that outlines expected behaviour standards of all members of the school community: students, parents, guardians, volunteers, staff and visitors.
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