The individual rights of each student must be balanced by the school's responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of all students. The Board of Education, Director of Schools, supervisors, administrators, teachers, and other staff members given specific disciplinary responsibility are authorized and expected to use just, prudent, and reasonable measures to achieve, promote, and insure the disciplinary expectations of the community in which we live. Due process is assured, with careful attention given to fair and consistent procedures and methods for all students. Inherent in a philosophy such as this are policies and procedures of the school system, as well as state and federal laws, deemed necessary to implement the principles of the philosophy. Therefore, the Bristol Tennessee City School System exercises a disciplinary system that is intolerant of serious or continuous infractions of our codes of conduct, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Acceptable behavior is essential to an effective school program.
The school provides each student with the maximum opportunity to acquire an education. No student has the right to interfere with this opportunity by his actions, poor manners, or lack of consideration. All rules and regulations are developed and enforced with this thought in mind.