Montana School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Scope

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Montana School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Scope

Category: Codes of Conduct
Subcategory: Scope
State: Montana

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LAWS

20-4-302. Discipline and punishment of pupils–definition of corporal punishment–penalty–defense.

(1) A teacher or principal has the authority to hold a pupil to a strict accountability for disorderly conduct in school, on the way to or from school, or during intermission or recess.

REGULATIONS

10.55.719. Student protection procedures.

(1) A local board of trustees shall adopt a policy designed to deter persistent threatening, insulting, or demeaning gestures or physical conduct, including an intentional written, verbal, or electronic communication or threat directed against a student or students regardless of the underlying reason for such conduct, that:

(a) causes a student physical or emotional harm, damages a student's property, or places a reasonable fear of harm to the student or the student's property;

(b) substantially and materially interferes with access to an educational opportunity or benefit; or

(c) substantially and materially disrupts the orderly operation of the school.

(4) The behavior prohibited in (1)includes but is not limited to conduct:

(a) in a classroom or other location on school premises;

(b) during any school-sponsored program, activity, or function where the school is responsible for the student including when the student is traveling to and from school or on a school bus or other school-related vehicle; or

(c) through the use of electronic communication, as defined in 45-8-213, MCA, that substantially and materially disrupts the orderly operation of the school or any school-sponsored program, activity, or function where the school is responsible for the student.

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