SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL UNION DISTRICT #41 CODE: JFA
POLICY MANUAL
1st READING: 3/1/93
2nd READING: 3/15/93
3rd READING/ADOPTED: 4/7/93
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DUE PROCESS;

1.0 A student who is subject to suspension may be suspended by the principal or designee provided however that before the imposition of the suspension the student and, if the student is under 18 years of age, also the parents or other legally responsible person, shall have oral or written notice of the time, place, and nature of the infraction and an opportunity to be heard informally by the person imposing the suspension as to evidence and/or reason whey the suspension should not be imposed. If school authorities are unable to locate the parent or legally responsible person, the student shall be segregated under supervision or the suspension delayed until such time as that required notification is accomplished.

2.0 Where the infraction of the student, or the student's condition of mental or physical health, in the reasoned judgment of the principal or designee, does one of the following:

2.1 Threatens in a maternal manner to disrupt or interfere with the orderly process of any or all of the school's functions or activities; or

2.2 Creates a substantial likelihood of imminent danger to the safety of person, the school or school property;

Then the principal or designee may suspend the student prior to the issuance of any notice. Within 24 hours of the suspension, written notice stating the time, place, and nature of the infraction, the duration of the suspension, and the right to be heard on any school day and during school hours as to why the suspension should not continue shall be mailed or given to the student, and if under 18 years of age, also to a parent or other legally responsible person.

3.0 After the imposition of a suspension, the student may appeal to the Superintendent of Schools, or upon a recommendation for expulsion, the student may appeal to the school board. The board shall hear evidence on the matter and the student, the parents, or other legally responsible person, may appear and be heard together with counsel, if they so choose, and may present evidence in defense of the student. if the school board, by majority vote, find substantial evidence that grounds for the student suspension or expulsion exist, it shall uphold the suspension or order the expulsion.

4.0 Upon the evidence presented, the school board may reduce a recommended expulsion to a suspension.

5.0 Upon the evidence presented, the school board may reduce or repeal a student's suspension and may remove any reference to the suspension from the student's record.

6.0 All hearings before the school board shall be in executive session except when at the request of the parent or legally responsible person, the school board in its discretion permits the hearing to be public.