The Board of Education acknowledges that conduct is closely related to learning - an effective instructional program requires an orderly school environment and the effectiveness of the educational program is, in part, reflected in the behavior of students.

The Board believes that the best discipline is self-imposed and that students should learn to assume responsibility for their own behavior and the consequences of their actions.

The Board shall require each student of this District to adhere to the Code of Conduct promulgated by the administration and to submit to such disciplinary measures as are appropriately assigned for infraction of those rules. Such rules shall require that students:

The Board will not tolerate any form of violence, disruptive or inappropriate behavior, nor excessive truancy which it defines as more than ten (10) days of unexcused absence. In addition to disciplinary action specified in the parent/student handbooks, the Superintendent shall develop strategies that will help prevent students from demonstrating any of these unacceptable behaviors.

Data regarding disciplinary action(s) may be entered on a student's record when such notation can be used to assist counselors. All such information may be removed from the student's permanent record before s/he leaves this School District.

The Superintendent shall promulgate administrative guidelines for student conduct which carry out the purposes of this policy and:

The Superintendent shall designate sanctions for the infractions of rules, which shall:

A student who has been disorderly on a school bus may be excluded from transportation services until school authorities have received his/her parent's assurances of future good conduct.

Regardless of where it occurs, misconduct by a student that is directed at a District official or employee or the property of such official or employee may be subject to school discipline.

The Superintendent shall publish to all students and their parents the rules of this District regarding student conduct and the sanctions which may be imposed for breach of those rules.

Building administrators shall have the authority to assign discipline to students, subject to the administrative guidelines of the Superintendent and to the student's due process right to notice, hearing, and appeal.

Teachers, school bus drivers, and other employees of this Board having authority over students shall have the authority to take such means as may be necessary, in accordance with administrative guidelines to control the disorderly conduct of students in all situations and in all places where such students are within the jurisdiction of this Board and when such conduct interferes with the educational program of the schools or threatens the health and safety of others.

Unless approved by the building administrator, no student is to be detained after the close of the regular school day unless the child's parent has been contacted and informed that the child is going to be detained. Notification to the parent is the responsibility of school personnel and should be made prior to the departure of school buses. If a parent cannot be contacted, the child should be detained on another day.

R.C. 3313.20, 3313.66, 3313.534, 3313.661, 3315.07
A.C. 3301-35-03 (G), 3301-83-07

Revised 5/11/98
Revised 5/8/00