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DISCIPLINE

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To provide a positive learning environment for students and staff, schools must be safe and orderly, students must be given clear expectations for appropriate behavior in school and fair practices for disciplining students must be followed.  To support these objectives, Board policy establishes a Code of Conduct for students and due process requirements for imposing out-of school suspensions.  Recognizing that removal of students from school can exacerbate behavioral problems, diminish academic achievement, and hasten school drop outs, the Board encourages teachers and school administrators to use in-school disciplinary measures when possible and to reserve long-term out-of-school suspensions for serious misconduct, such as behavior that threatens the safety of students, staff, or visitors or threatens to substantially disrupt the educational environment. 

The Superintendent shall keep data on each student suspended or expelled. This data shall include the race, gender, age, grade, disability status of each student, the duration of suspension for each student, whether alternative education services were provided for each student, and whether a student had multiple suspensions in that academic year. 

In the case of any student who brings a firearm onto school property, the information shall include a description of the circumstances surrounding the student’s suspension, the name of the school concerned, the number of students suspended from the school for bringing a weapon as defined by this paragraph onto school property, and the type of weapons concerned.

Legal Reference: G.S. 115C-36, G.S. 115C-276(r), G.S. 115C-288(e), G.S. 115C-289, G.S. 115C-307, and G.S. 115C-390

Adopted: August 9, 1976

Revised: July 8, 1987

Revised: May 20, 1991

Revised: April 17, 1995

Revised: November 8, 1995

Revised: May 17, 1999

Revised: May 30, 2001

Revised: May 21, 2002

Revised: March 6, 2007

Revised: June 5, 2007

Revised: April 6, 2010 (effective July 1, 2010)

Revised: July 12, 2011