started here, there were 3 faculty members and the Head of School who
smoked. The Head arranged for classes/support to help all 4 individuals
stop smoking if they wished. Only one faculty member was unsuccessful - she
no longer smoked on campus - would go out to her car :-)
We are not a boarding school.
On 5/13/09 9:12 AM, "Bill Ivey" <bivey01370@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We are a boarding school, and we went 100% smoke-free a while back - maybe
> eight years or so. We gave plenty of lead time, I think 18 months, and
> offered current employees chances to enroll in stop-smoking programs. I
> don't think anyone quit, and I don't think anyone fled to their cars (at my
> old school, we did have a Latin teacher who "drove off campus" twice a day).
> Once we declared that this is how it will be, we value you and support you
> as workers and as people, but it is in the best interest of the school
> (especially the students) that we no longer permit smoking anywhere on
> campus, people pretty well went along with it.
>
> Take care,
> Bill Ivey
> Stoneleigh-Burnham School
>
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