While in some states, the courts have given schools authority to suspend students who commit serious criminal acts off school grounds, your school would be violating your due process rights if it automatically suspended you without giving you a hearing. Students of color have been suspended at much higher rates than white students , according to Federal Office of Civil Rights statistics, and students have been discriminated against based on their religion, national origins, gender, and other factors. If you think your school's rules discriminate, you should contact local civil rights groups to get your school to adopt fairer procedures. Your local ACLU also can help you find other groups. The Michigan State Board of Education's guidelines for school rules is a good model for a fair school rule policy.
Rules have to be related to valid educational purposes.
Rules can't restrict activities that are constitutionally protected. School policies have to tell you what the punishment is for breaking the rules. The punishment can't be more serious than the misconduct, nor harsher than what the school district itself is authorized to do. A copy of the rules and procedures must be made available to all students. If you think your school's disciplinary rules are unfair, you and other students can try to create a task force with parents, teachers and school administrators to improve them.