Friday, October 20, 2017
Dear Nature Hill Families,
As a community, we have the important task of working together to
ensure the safety of our students. One of the threats students may face is the
exposure to drugs and alcohol. In recent years, Nature Hill, in coordination
with our district and community advocacy groups, has taken some steps to ensure
we do our part to help educate our students on the dangers of drug and alcohol
use and take proactive measures to prevent
students from using them.
One such preventative measure is that we have partnered with the Waukesha
County Sheriff’s K-9 team. A few times throughout the year, we invite the team
to complete a search for illegal drugs around our entire campus and building.
This is a tool we use to ensure everyone knows we
are serious about Nature Hill being a drug-free community. Today, we conducted an unannounced search of our entire campus. In
total, the search lasted about 15 minutes and caused minimal disruption to our
school day. In order to allow the search to be as efficient as possible,
the building was placed in a non-emergency lockdown, which means that teachers
were asked to continue with their lessons and students were asked to stay in
their classrooms for the duration of the search. Often times, parents want to
know the results of these searches. However, in order to protect the
confidentiality of the members of our community, we do not publicly share the
results of these searches.
In addition to these searches, there are other preventative measures we
take as a community. Starting last year, we instituted a random drug testing
procedure. All 7th and 8th graders who participate in a
club or athletic team at Nature Hill are eligible to be tested. Again, this
policy is simply meant to give students an excuse to say “no” to any pressure
they may face when confronted with the opportunity to use an illegal drug.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at CurtisJ@oasd.org.
Thank you for your support,
Jason Curtis
Principal
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