CCCSD #161

DISCIPLINE POLICY, continued

SCHOOL POLICY ON HARMFUL TEASING AND BULLYING

All members of a school’s learning community have the right to learn in a school environment free from disruptive behaviors, a school that reflects behavioral expectations and creates an atmosphere in which a student’s self-esteem can flourish.

A school has the right and responsibility to establish rules that clearly define the limits of acceptable behavior and to ask for assistance from parents and the learning community when support is needed to create a caring, supportive, and nurturing school climate.

A school has the right to establish consequences for students who make poor choices regarding their behaviors. Appropriate and meaningful consequences may include:

· Conference with principal and/or teacher.

· Loss of privileges.

· Detention.

· Suspension and/or expulsion from school.

Harmful teasing and bullying WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Students must keep hands, feet, objects, and unkind words and gestures to themselves.

Harmful teasing and bullying are examples of behaviors that hurt another’s feelings. Students who choose to hurt another purposely violate the school’s discipline policy and will receive a consequence for their poor choice of behavior.

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