As part of its Safe Schools Initiative, the Ministry of Education now requires that all schools develop a code of conduct which outlines the standards of behaviour expected from its members. Members of the school community include: students, staff, parents/guardians, volunteers and visitors.
 

A safe school is conducive to learning and teaching within an environment that promotes responsibility, respect and academic excellence. The province wide Code of Conduct sets clear minimum standards for behaviour with mandatory minimum consequences, as outlined below.
 

Suspensions - What is New? (effective September 2001)
 

Suspensions will be mandatory for the following offences:
 

• uttering a threat to inflict serious bodily harm on another person
• swearing at a teacher or another person in a position of authority
• possessing alcohol or illegal drugs
• being under the influence of alcohol
• committing an act of vandalism that causes extensive damage to school property

• persistent truancy
• persistent opposition to authority
• habitual neglect of duty
• the willful destruction of school property
• conduct injurious to the moral tone of the school or to the physical or mental well-being of others in the school

 

Expulsions - What is New? (effective September 2001)

The provincial Code of Conduct outlines behaviour for which the police will be involved, the student will immediately be suspended and the matter will proceed to an expulsion hearing. Such infractions are as follows:
 

• possessing a weapon
• using a weapon to cause or to threaten bodily harm to another person
• committing physical assault on another person that causes bodily harm
• committing sexual assault
• trafficking in weapons or illegal drugs
• committing robbery
• giving alcohol to a minor