Iowa School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Teacher Authority to Remove Students From Classrooms

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Iowa School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Teacher Authority to Remove Students From Classrooms

Category: In-School Discipline
Subcategory: Teacher Authority to Remove Students From Classrooms
State: Iowa

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LAWS

279.51A. Classroom environment–behavioral challenges–reports of violence or assault.

1. A classroom teacher may clear students from the classroom only if necessary to prevent or terminate an imminent threat of bodily injury to a student or another person in the classroom.

280.21. Corporal punishment–burden of proof.

2. A school employee who, in the reasonable course of the employee's employment responsibilities, comes into physical contact with a student shall be granted immunity from any civil or criminal liability which might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of such physical contact, if the physical contact is reasonable under the circumstances and involves any of the following:

f. Removing a disruptive student from class or any area of the school premises, or from school-sponsored activities off school premises.

REGULATIONS

281-103.5(256B,280). Use of reasonable and necessary force.

103.5(1) Notwithstanding the ban on corporal punishment in rule 281-103.3(256B,280), no employee subject to these rules is prohibited from:

a. Using reasonable and necessary force, not designed or intended to cause pain, in order to accomplish any of the following:

(4) To remove a disruptive student from class or any area of the school's premises or from school-sponsored activities off school premises.

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