staffer who still takes the odd off-campus smoke break by car; a few years
back we had several.
Harder at boarding schools, perhaps, but I believe an institution can
declare its premises smoke-free and expect compliance. I worked for a
number of years at a summer camp on an island where the property manager
insisted on maintaining a staff smoking area because it was felt that it
was against some law to ban smoking altogether; seemed unlikely and at any
rate a bad idea on a woodsy island with only wooden structures filled with
kids, but there was no convincing anyone otherwise.
I suppose a school might consult its state or community board of health to
find out if there are any restrictions on an organization's ability to ban
on-site smoking.
Disturbing factoid: I started working in an age when teachers were
permitted to smoke in their classrooms; this dates me, but not as much as
you might think or hope.
Cheers--Peter Gow
Peter Gow
Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
Beaver Country Day School
791 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
www.bcdschool.org
617-738-2755 (O)
617-738-2747 (F)
petergow3 (Skype)
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