Student and Staff Relationships

To facilitate professional, friendly, and biblical relationships between staff members and students the following guidelines shall be observed.

• Staff members are to remember that they serve as professional, adult role models before the students (Titus 2:7, 8). Relationships between staff members and between staff members and students are to be friendly and courteous, not familial or intimate.
  
  
• Staff members are to be careful that any physical contacts and verbal interchanges with each other and with students avoid even the appearance of impropriety (I Peter 2:12).
  
  
• Flirtation, sexual innuendos, casual disrespect toward authority, excessive familiarity, etc. are examples of the kind of unprofessional and inappropriate behavior that will not be tolerated. Necessary and cautionary measures required to limit these kinds of behaviors should be corporately and individually taken.
  
  
• If it is necessary for a male staff member to spend time alone with a female student or staff member, it should be arranged that they are easily visible to the public (e.g. an open door, windowed room, etc.). The same rules applies if a female staffer must spend time alone with a male student.
  
  
• Staff members shall not travel alone in a car with one student.