Student Rights and Responsibilities

Policy JI/JIA

6. Student Involvement in School Aff airs - While on school grounds, in school

facilities, at school-sponsored activities, when being transported in vehicles
approved by the District, or off school property when their conduct has a nexus to
school or any District curricular or non-curricular activity or event, students shall
comply with District policies and regulations pertaining to student conduct. (See
Student Conduct Code, District Policy JIC/JICDA and subcodes.) Students shall have
the right to participate, as suitable to their age and maturity, in decision making
processes; student government; and student organizations. They shall have the
constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and expression, and the right to
possess and distribute literature, as set forth in District policies pertaining to
student organizations and publications.

Policy JICB PREVENTION OF BULLYING The Board of Education recognizes the

negative impact that bullying has on student health, welfare, and safety and on the
learning environment at school. Bullying is prohibited on all District property, at
District or school-sanctioned activities or events, when students are being
transported in vehicles dispatched by the District or one of its schools, and off
school property when such conduct has a nexus to school or any District curricular
or noncurricular activity or event. Bullying means any written, verbal or pictorial
expression, physical act or gesture, or a pattern thereof by a student that is
intended to cause distress upon one or more students and is sufficiently severe that
it has the effect of: 1. creating an intimidating, hostile, or significantly offensive
environment for the learning or performance of school-sanctioned activities of any
student; or 2. unreasonably interfering with or disrupting the educational
performance or participation in any other school-sanctioned activity of any student

Policy JKA CORPORAL PUNISHMENT/USE OF PHYSICAL INTERVENTION AND

RESTRAINT BY EMPLOYEES
No corporal punishment shall be administered to any student by any District
employee.

Restraint Restraint is defined by state law and this policy as any method or device
used to involuntarily limit a students freedom of movement, including but not
limited to bodily physical force, mechanical devices, chemicals, and seclusion.
Restraint shall not include the holding of a student for less than five minutes by a
district employee for the protection of the student or others and other actions
excluded from the definition of restraint in state law. District employees shall not

use restraint as a punitive form of discipline or as a threat to control or gain

compliance of a students behavior. District employees are also prohibited from
restraining a student by use of a mechanical restraint or chemical restraint,