5600 - STUDENT DISCIPLINE
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:
conform to reasonable standards of socially-acceptable behavior;
respect the person and property of others;
preserve the degree of order necessary to the educational program in which they are engaged;
respect the rights of others;
obey constituted authority and respond to those who hold that authority.
The Superintendent shall promulgate administrative guidelines for student conduct which carry out the purposes of this policy and:
are not arbitrary but bear a reasonable relationship to the need to maintain a school environment conducive to learning;
do not discriminate among students;
do not demean students;
do not violate any individual rights constitutionally guaranteed to students.
The Superintendent shall publish to all students and their parents the rules of this District regarding student conduct, the sanctions which may be imposed for breach of those rules, and the due process procedures that will be followed in administering the Code of Conduct.
The principal shall have the authority to assign discipline to students, subject to District administrative guidelines and the student's due process right to notice, hearing, and appeal.
Teachers and other employees of this Board having authority over students shall have the authority to take such means as may be necessary to control the disorderly conduct of students in all situations and in all places where such students are within the jurisdiction of this Board when such conduct interferes with the educational program of the schools or threatens the health and safety of others.