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A student who fails to comply with established school rules or with any reasonable request made by school personnel on school property and/or at school-related events is subject to student discipline. The Superintendent is directed to develop student discipline procedures, which establish strategies ranging from prevention, to intervention, to exclusion, to address student misbehavior and truancy.
Students and parents will annually receive, at the beginning of the school year or upon entering during the year, written information on the rules and regulations to which the students are subject while in school or participating in any school-related activity or event. The information will include the types of conduct which are subject to suspension or expulsion from school and other forms of disciplinary action. The Board directs the administration, through its teaching staff, to carefully review with students the Student Code of Conduct to make them aware of the Code itself and the fact that any violations of the Student Code of Conduct are punishable. The review shall take place during the first few weeks of school (or during a new student’s first few weeks of attendance).
If a student violates this policy or the Code of Conduct, school personnel and students should report the student to the appropriate building administrator. Parents may contact the appropriate building administrator if they have information related to, knowledge of, or witness to a violation of this policy or the Code of Conduct. In order to reduce repeat offenses, the building principal may meet with a student returning from an out-of-school suspension in excess of five (5) days to discuss, clarify, and reiterate the District’s expectations concerning the student’s conduct/behavior.
The administration cooperates with any prosecution pursuant to the criminal laws of the State of Ohio and local ordinances.
The Student Code of Conduct is made available to students and parents and is posted in a central location within each building. Adopted March 14, 2000. POLICY 6.25 - STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT
RULE A - Disruption of School - A student shall not by use of violence, force, coercion, threat, harassment, insubordination, or repeated violations of the Code of Conduct disrupt or obstruct the educational program, including lunch periods, as well as all curricular and extracurricular activities. Examples of disruption may include unusual dress and appearance, strikes or walkouts, the use of stink bombs, the impeding of free traffic to and within the school, the playing of radios and the use of headphones, and the possession of cell phones, etc.
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