3200 Student Rights and Responsibilities

Each year, the superintendent shall develop and make available to all students, their parents and staff handbooks pertaining to student rights, conduct, corrective actions and punishment.  Such statements shall be developed with the participation of parents and the community.  The school principal and staff shall confer at least annually to develop and/or review student conduct standards and the uniform enforcement of those standards as related to the established student handbooks.  They shall also confer annually to establish criteria for determining when certificated employees must complete classes to improve classroom management skills.

All students who attend the district's schools shall comply with the written policies, rules and regulations of the schools, shall pursue the required course of studies, and shall submit to the authority of staff of the schools, subject to such corrective action or punishment as the school officials shall determine.

 

Legal References:         

• RCW   28A.600.010                    Enforcement of rules of conduct – Due process guarantees – Computation of days for short-term and long-term suspensions
• RCW 28A.600.020                    Exclusion of studetn from classrooms – Written disciplinary procedures – long term suspension or expulsion
• RCW 28A.600.040                    Pupils to comply with rules & regulations
• RCW 28A.400.110                    Principal to assure appropriate discipline – building discipline standards – classes to improve classroom management skills
• RCW 28A.405.060                    Course of study and regulations - Enforcement — Withholding salary warrant for failure
• RCW 28A.150.240                    Basic Education Act of 1977 — Certificated teaching and administrative staff as accountable for class room teaching — Scope — Responsibilities — Penalty
• WAC  392-400-215                    Student rights
• WAC 392-400-225                    School district rules defining misconduct — Distribution of rules
• WAC 392-168                          Special service programs – Citizen complaint procedure for certain categorical federal programs

 

Adoption Date:  05.20.03

Stanwood-Camano School District

Reviewed:  04.03.17