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A. Code of Conduct (cont'd) |
Mandatory Consequences
Mandatory Suspension: Safe Schools Act, 2000 5.306(1 )
It is mandatory that a pupil be suspended from his or her school and
from engaging in all school-related activities if the pupil commits any of
the following infractions while he or she is at school or is engaged in a
school-related activity:
- Uttering a threat to inflict -serious bodily harm on another person
- Possessing alcohol or illegal drugs
- Being under the influence of alcohol
- Swearing at a teacher or at another person in a position of
authority
- Committing an act of vandalism that causes extensive damage to
school property-at the pupil's school or to property located on the
premises of the pupil's school
- Engaging in another activity that, under a policy of the Board, is
one for which a suspension in mandatory.
The suspension of a pupil is not mandatory for the purposes of
subsection 306(5) of the Act if, (Reg. 106/01 )
- the pupil does not have the ability to control his or her behaviour
- the pupil does not have the ability to understand the foreseeable
consequences of his or her behaviour
- the pupil's continuing presence in the school does not create an
unacceptable risk to the safety of any person.
Mandatory Expulsion: Safe Schools Act, 2000 s.309(1 )
It is mandatory that a pupil be expelled if the pupil commits any of
the following infractions while he or she is at school or is engaged in a
school-related activity:
- Possessing a weapon, including possessing a firearm
- Using a weapon to cause or to threaten bodily harm to another person
- Committing physical assault an another person that causes bodily
harm requiring treatment by a medical practitioner
- Committing sexual assault
- Trafficking in weapons or in illegal drugs
- Committing robbery
- Giving alcohol to a minor
- Engaging in another activity that, under a policy of the Board, is
one for which expulsion is mandatory.
The expulsion of a pupil is not mandatory for the purposes of
subsection 309(3) of the Act if, (Reg. 37/01 )
- the pupil does not have the ability to control his or her behaviour
- the pupil does not have the ability to understand the foreseeable
consequences of his or her behaviaur
- the pupil's continuing presence in the school does not create an
unacceptable risk to the safety of any person.
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