Assignment to an Alternative Intervention Counseling Center - As an alternative to suspension from school, the principal may elect to assign a student to the Alternative Intervention Counseling Center. Parents may request this action as an alternative to suspension, but the final decision rests with the principal. Peer Mediation - The principal may elect to establish a peer mediation program designed to resolve less serious problems not addressed in the Student Code of Conduct. The establishment and use of this program rests with the principal. When the principal utilizes an alternative to suspension, the student shall be afforded the same due process procedures that are applicable to suspension.
Corporal punishment is physical force or physical contact applied to the body as punishment.
This prohibition extends to parents or guardians on school grounds. Such action may be taken by the school principal, who subsequently informs the student and parent of the denial of bus privileges and requests a parent conference. Such privileges may be restored by the principal following a conference with the parent and student, when there is good reason to believe that the conduct in question will not recur. Principals take this action when they have exhausted informal disciplinary strategies, or when they have at least considered those alternatives and rejected them as inappropriate in a given situation. A suspended student completing assigned work missed during the period of suspension will not be subject to the withholding of passing final grades unless the student has, in addition to suspension, attained five or more unexcused absences in a semester course or ten or more unexcused absences in an annual course.