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POLICY NAME: Student Discipline Policy	POLICY NUMBER: 305
AWSNA POLICIES AND PRACTICES AREA:                    VERSION: 3                                       2	APPROVED: September 20, 2022
DOCUMENT HISTORY: ​v2: added first para under heading Policy Statement to include anti-discrimination.	REVIEWED: January 15, 2024

​Rationale
BC Waldorf Schools strive to ensure that every child feels safe, accepted and respected. As such, each school has developed a school specific policy that outlines the responsibilities of administrators, teachers, staff and students for maintaining a safe, caring and orderly school. This policy focuses on the framework that specific BC Waldorf School policy is based on. More information can be found here:

Procedural Fairness: Best Practices for Independent Schools (PDF)

Policy Statement 
As per the BC Waldorf Collective Harassment and Bullying Prevention Policy, BC Waldorf Schools commit to ensuring that all school programs in existence or proposed and including all extra-curricular activities and field trips, promote students’ physical safety, social connectedness, inclusiveness, and protection from all forms of bullying, regardless of their sex, race, culture, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, while remaining consistent with BC Waldorf Schools’ philosophical values.

BC Waldorf Schools are committed to providing safe, caring and orderly school environments where children can thrive socially as much as any other area of school life. Each school represents their unique school community through school specific student behaviour policies, protocols, and procedures. School specific policies may include but are not limited to:

• Code of Conduct - a description of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
• Awards Program
• Anti-bullying Action Plan - protocols for responding specifically to bullying behaviour
• Discipline Policy/Plan that includes Procedures and Protocols regarding disciplinary action
• Student Success Plan - a collaborative plan to support students who require additional short term behavioural support
• Behaviour Guidance/Management Plan - For students without an IEP who require urgent behavioural support for extreme behaviour
• Appeal process

Procedural Fairness
Transparent and fair procedures reassure students, parents and staff by providing integrity and consistency in respect to decisions made about behaviour. BC Waldorf Schools will ensure that their school specific Discipline policy/procedures/protocols include the following procedural fairness elements:

1. Codes of conduct and rules are clear and well communicated,
   
2. In accordance with school specific policy, students who are accused of breaching a rule will be notified of that of which they are accused, with the essential facts of what they are alleged to have done,
   
3. Any student accused of a breach will be given an opportunity to tell their side of the story, 
   
4. Students and parents/guardians will be informed of any appeal or review procedure in accordance with school specific policy,
   
5. The assurance of no retribution for pursuing an appeal or review,
   
6. Measures have been taken to avoid bias, and
   
7. Suitable procedural protections are in place for responding to major infractions.

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