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STUDENT  DISCIPLINE

The Superintendent shall recommend policies and develop procedures for the discipline of students that comply with A.R.S. 15-843.  These policies and procedures will apply to all students traveling to, attending, and returning from school, while visiting another school or at a school-sanctioned activity, or in any other situation in which the District may lawfully exercise its authority to discipline a student.  When suspension or expulsion is involved, notice, hearing, and appeal procedures shall conform to applicable legal requirements.

The discipline, suspension, and expulsion of students shall not be based on real or perceived race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, national origin, ancestry or any other unlawful reason.  A substantial or deliberate failure to comply with the prohibition against race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or ancestry may subject the District to the loss of funds imposed by A.R.S. 15-843.

The principal of each school shall ensure that a copy of all rules pertaining to discipline, suspension, and expulsion of students is distributed to the parents/guardians/families of each student at the time the student is enrolled in school and to the student and the student's parents/guardians/family at the time of any disciplinary action.

The principal of each school shall ensure that a copy of all rules pertaining to discipline, suspension, and expulsion of students are communicated to students at the beginning of each school year.

Information concerning a student's disciplinary record will be held in the strictest confidence.

Disciplinary actions taken will be recorded in an administrative log, and all types of suspensions or expulsions will be recorded in a separate file for each student.

Temporary  Removal

Teachers are authorized to temporarily remove a student from a class.  A teacher may temporarily remove a student to the principal or to a person designated by the school administrator, in accord with:

A.  Rules established for the referral of students.

B.  The conditions of A.R.S. 15-841, when applicable.

The Superintendent shall establish such rules as are necessary to implement the temporary removal procedure.

Confinement

The Governing Board does not authorize the use of confinement for disciplinary purposes.

Schools are not prohibited from adopting policies which include procedures for the reasonable use of physical force by certificated or support staff personnel in self-defense, defense of others and defense of property (A.R.S. 15-843, subsection b, paragraph 3.)

Threatened  an  Educational  Institution

Threatened an educational institution means to interfere with or disrupt an educational institution as found in A.R.S. 15-841 and 13-2911.  A student who is determined to have threatened an educational institution shall be expelled from school for at least one (1) year except that the District may modify this expulsion requirement for a student on a case-by-case basis and may reassign a student subject to expulsion to an alternative education program if the student participates in mediation, community service, restitution or other programs in which the student takes responsibility for the results of the threat.  The District may require the student's parent(s)/guardian(s)/family to participate in mediation, community service, restitution or other programs with the student as a condition to the reassignment of the student to an alternative education program.

Adopted:  June 16, 2021

LEGAL REF.:
A.R.S.
13-403 et seq.
13-2911
15-105
15-341
15-342
15-841
15-842
15-843
15-844

CROSS REF.:
GBEB - Staff Conduct
JIC - Student Conduct
JKA - Corporal Punishment
JKD - Student Suspension
JLDB - Restraint and Seclusion