North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 16 - EDUCATION › Chapter 06 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Subchapter I - THE GOVERNER MOREHEAD SCHOOL › Section .0400 - DISCIPLINE › Section 06I .0401 - DEFINITIONS OF DISCIPLINARY TERMS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) "Discipline
				  Team" means a committee that is chaired by the Director of Comprehensive Clinic
				  and including Building Principal, Director of Residential Life or Dorm
				  Director, Houseparent, Student's Classroom Teacher, and the Counselor or School
				  Psychologist.
(b) "Due Process"
				  means the student has the right to tell his or her side of an incident to the
				  Discipline Committee before disciplinary decisions are made regarding an
				  incident. No matter what decision is made, the student or his parent or
				  guardian have the right to talk to the administrative staff.
(c) "Expulsion" means any action removing a
				  student from the right to attend school for a designated period of
				  time.
(d) "Home Suspension" means
				  removal of a student from the Governor Morehead School campus and exclusion
				  (cannot participate) from all school-sponsored activities. This suspension by
				  the administration is for a period of not more than ten school days per school
				  year.
(e) "Immediate Family" means
				  spouse, parents, children, brother, sister, grandparents and legal guardians.
				  Also included are the step, half, and in-law relationships.
(f) "Isolation" means separating a student
				  for up to two hours from activity in classroom or dorm into a quiet area within
				  same room or in a separate room.
(g) "In-Cottage Suspension" means removal of
				  a student from the normal cottage activities and privileges and assignment to a
				  specific area and staff member. Included is the loss of all privileges during
				  dormitory hours.
(h) "In-School
				  Suspension" means removal of a student from the normal school day activities
				  including school related extracurricular activities and assignment to a
				  specific area and staff member. Included is the loss of all privileges during
				  school hours.
(i) "On-Campus Total
				  Suspension" means removal of a student from normal classroom, cottage and after
				  school activities with assignment to a specific area and staff member with loss
				  of all privileges.
(j) "Required
				  Parent Conference" means conferences intended to prevent future incidents.
				  Mandatory after suspension to reinstate student.
(k) "Search and Seizure" means school
				  personnel, with the approval of the Superintendent may conduct a reasonable
				  search of students, student's personal property, or school property being used
				  by a student when there is a reasonable suspicion that a student is concealing
				  illegal contraband such as drugs, weapons, alcohol, or fireworks, or that a
				  search is necessary to protect other students and staff.
(l) "Time-Out" means separating a student up
				  to 30 minutes from the activity in the classroom or dormitory into a quiet area
				  within the same room or in a separate room. This may be done by the houseparent
				  or teacher to calm a student who is upset.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 115C-228;
					 143B-173(b);
Eff. August 25, 1980;
Amended Eff. September 1, 1990;
Transferred from
					 10A NCAC
					 93 .0401 Eff. June 1,
					 2011.