JGD - Suspension**
Policy JGD
Code: JGD
Readopted: 6/15/2020
Adopted: 5/14/18
The Board authorizes student suspension for one or more of the following reasons:
- Willful violation of Board policies, administrative regulations or school rules;
- Willful conduct which materially and substantially disrupts the rights of others to an education;
- Willful conduct which endangers the student, other students or staff members;
- Willful conduct which damages or injures district property.
A student whose conduct or condition is seriously detrimental to the school’s best interests may be suspended. The district shall consider the age of the student and the student’s past pattern of behavior prior to imposing the suspension. The district will ensure careful consideration of the rights and needs of the individual concerned, as well as the best interests of other students and the school program as a whole.
The use of out-of-school suspension for discipline of a student in the fifth grade or below, is limited to:
- Nonaccidental conduct causing serious physical harm to a student or employee;
- When a school administrator determines, based on the administrator’s observation or upon a report from an employee, the student’s conduct poses a threat to the health or safety of students or employees; or
- When the suspension or expulsion is required by law.
When an out-of-school suspension is imposed on a student in the fifth grade or lower, the district shall take steps to prevent the recurrence of the behavior that led to the out-of-school suspension, and return the student to a classroom setting to minimize the disruption of the student’s academic instruction.
Students and parents are given notice of possible discipline actions resulting from student misconduct that may result in suspension in the Student Family Resource Handbook made available by the district.
Each suspension will include a statement of the reasons for suspension, the length of the suspension, a plan for readmission and may include a plan for the student to make up school work. No suspension shall extend beyond 10 school days. Every reasonable and prompt effort must be made to notify the parents of suspended students. The district may require a student to attend school during nonschool hours as an alternative to suspension.
In emergency situations that are a result of risk to health and safety, the district may postpone the suspension notice process above until the emergency condition has passed.
Students who are suspended may not attend after-school activities and athletic events, be present on district property without a parent or participate in activities directed or sponsored by the district.
Suspensions may be appealed per JGD-AR.
END OF POLICY
Legal Reference(s):
OAR 581-021-0050
OAR 581-021-0055
OAR 581-021-0060
OAR 581-021-0065
OAR 581-021-0071
OAR 581-021-0075
Cross Reference(s):
JFC - Student Conduct
JG - Student Discipline
JGD-AR
When a student is suspended from school for four (4) days up to ten (10) days, they may appeal the suspension. The process to appeal the suspension is as follows:
- A parent/legal guardian or the student, if they are 18 years of age or older, shall have two school (2) days from the school administration’s decision to suspend in which to appeal the decision to the Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning or his/her designee. The request to appeal should be submitted to the Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning and must be made in writing. Those appealing a suspension should include the entire basis for the appeal in their written submission.
- The appeal will be reviewed based on the written record of the suspension only. The written record may include, but is not limited to, the notification letter and description of the incident in Synergy or any notes regarding the event together with the written appeal submitted on behalf of the student.
- Following a review of the written record, the Deputy Superintendent or his/her designee shall issue a response in writing within three (3) school days after receipt of the appeal which upholds, overturns, or modifies the suspension. The decision of the Deputy Superintendent or his/her designee is final. Suspensions may not be appealed to either the Superintendent or the Board.