PROCEDURES FOR DISCIPLINARY MEASURE

1. Minor infractions or infrequent violations of minor offences will be handled by the Subject teacher and/or Adviser and Guidance Counselor.

2. Serious personal misconduct/breaches of discipline or repeated offenses of minor and major violations committed by a student will be handled by the Prefect of Discipline, the Principal and the Discipline Committee or any designee by the said individuals.

3. After due investigation, the Principal or her designee shall present a final decision to be approved by the Director from where a notification will be served to the parents for any more concerns.

FORMS OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION

After due investigation, any of the following penalties/sanction may be imposed on individual offenders upon careful study of the case and its evidences.

1. Oral reprimanding/warning.

2. Written warning/Notice (violation report), issued by the Guidance Counselor as a material basis for conferences or any impending sanctions.

3. Detention (ranging from half-day to 1 day detention) considering the gravity and/or occurrence of offence/s.

4. Failing marks in Deportment.

5. Suspension

a. Ordinary suspension forbids attendance in regular classes but demands the student's presence in the Guidance Office or any office for that matter to deliver school service while under suspension.

b. Preventive suspension prohibits the student's presence in school or in any school-related activity off campus.

6. Prohibition from participating in school functions such as commencement exercises, sports, contests, etc. should any student from any grade level commit a serious offence or a series of minor offenses warranting such sanction during the school year.

7. Disciplinary probation or special disciplinary probation is a restraining measure imposed for one (1) calendar year on a student who has been found guilty of consistent misbehavior or multiple breach of conduct.

8. Recommendation for Transfer but with the Good Moral Character Certificate to be withheld for students under such penalty.

9. Dismissal.

10. Expulsion - An expelled student cannot enroll in any school in the country.

11. Special Disciplinary Sanctions (i.e. Special haircut sanction, morning activity detention, etc.)

After due investigation, any of the following penalties/sanctions may be imposed on groups or sections upon circumstantial offenses or offenses:

1. Section/Group detention

2. School service as Disciplinary sanction

3. Cancellation of activity participation or certain school privileges upon the Principal's approval.

1. Cutting Class.

2. Academic dishonesty through cheating, copying, forging signature of the parent and/or teacher, impersonating a parent or guardian, plagiarizing, or altering records, or assisting another in such actions.

3. Possession of cigarettes and alcoholic liquor.

4. Use of Profanity, obscene and/or indecent gestures, and possession or use of pornographic materials. Students are expected to use appropriate language and to conduct themselves in a fitting manner for the school environment. Vulgar words, expressions, gestures, and/or possession of pornographic material which violates the standards of the school and community will not be tolerated.

5. Dishonesty - such as telling lies to cover up any wrong doing or other means of suppressing righteousness and justice; Falsification/fraud (deceit, trickery); lying in official investigation/hearing; misinformation, misleading involved and concerned individuals, etc.

6. Unauthorized Departure from School. Students are expected to remain in school or on the school campus during the school day unless they have proper authorization to depart.

7. Unauthorized leave from School. Students who were sent to class for a certain day but intentionally did not proceed to their destination (school) with the agenda to go somewhere else (wearing their school uniform or with prior knowledge that they are motioning for such).

8. Stealing or unauthorized taking of instructional material, device, etcl.

9. Engaging or attempting to engage in games of chance and possession of any gambling/game of chance paraphernalia.

10. Engaging in Heterosexual relationship, display of intimate relationship (kissing, hugging, holding hands, etc.)

11. Vandalism,

12. Refusal to accept a reprimand, sanction or misleading a violation report.

13. Publishing or circulating false or malicious information about other students, the teacher/s, other school personnel/official, and even the school (depending on gravity of information and its impact to the person/s involved may be elevated to Category III or IV status).

14. Accumulated disregard of school policies, rules and regulations (falling under Category I Violations).

15. Forging/altering Information. Information submitted to the school shall be honest and without alteration. This includes information on school forms and documents, as well as information submitted via telephone and other forms of electronic transfer or fake phone calls.

16. Insubordination. Students must respect the authority of staff members. Insubordination usually is manifested by blatant disobedience, outright refusal to respond to a direction or directive, or refusal to respond to reasonable requests by staff members including requests for conferences with counselors, deans, or department chairs/lead teachers.

17. The use or possession of symbols, that include, but are not limited, to drawings, hand signs, skin marks, piercings, multiple ear holes or the likes, tattoos and other representation related to gang activities.

18. Malicious Mischief - damage, defacement, destruction, vandalizing, or molestation of school property or another person's property. Please note, that if a student, in committing an act of malicious mischief or vandalism, damages, destroys, or substantially decreases the value of school property of the property of another that was on school property at the time of the violation, the student and/or the student's parent(s), court appointed guardian(s) or court ordered custodian(s) shall be required to make restitution as a part of the suspension/expulsion process.

19. Harassment (actions or statements directed at an individual or identifiable group of individuals of ridicule, demeaning the other, or subject the other to contempt).

20. Possession for sale or intent to distribute, use items within the school that are not otherwise defined in policy but are clearly inappropriate as determined by the school principal or designee.

21. Conveying false information on threats or any such initiating a report warning of impending danger.

22. Any offense analogous to the above.

1. Commission of any crime against the law of the land or outside the school.

2. Obstruction and disruption, threatening, intimidating, provoking or coercing and/or lawless entering the school premises.

3. Instigating/leading or participating in concerted activities to stoppage of classes and/or school activities or preventing teachers/students from entering school premises.

4. Possession and/or use of explosives such as hand grenades, dynamites, pill box bomb, dangerous firecrackers and incendiary devices capable of producing destructive effects, fire or contiguous, objects or causing injury or death of any person.

5. If a student possesses, consumes, emits the odor of, participates in the distribution of or is under the influence of alcohol, drugs, tobacco products, "look-alike" substances, marijuana, or any other substance not used as prescribed, or any other illegal substance is used by a student to achieve a high or an altered mental state, or if a student is in possession of drug-related paraphernalia, the student is in violation of this policy.

6. Infliction of major physical injuries to fellow students and members of the faculty and other school authorities (leading to clinic or hospital attendance).

7. Extortion and Coercion - obtaining something by force and improper pressure, or by means of violence.

8. Assaulting members of the faculty, other school authorities, students, other members of the community causing great disorder and alarm and for being notoriously undesirable.

9. Theft, stealing (which includes but is not limited to possession of property belonging to others without permission), shoplifting; whereas students who find properties of others should return it to the rightful owner or properties of unidentified owners should be surrendered to the Prefect of Discipline; otherwise, a violation might ensue.

10. Larceny (taking of property of another person with the intention of converting it to use other than that of the owner without the owner's consent).

11. Threatening with/Use of deadly weapons such as knives, ice pick and other sharp, pointed and bladed weapons, as well as guns and other firearms which would endanger lives and/or health of the school community.

12. Disgraceful and immoral conduct and grave scandal consisting of acts which are offensive to decency and good custom, like doing acts of lasciviousness, obscenity, sexual advances, religious profanities, and other scandalous and immoral acts (with either material evidences (videos, pictures, etc.) or witness statements/information).

13. Any other misconduct which endangers the good name of the school and its members.

14. Arson, possession use/or distribution of items such as but not limited to fireworks, lighters, matches, and other combustible, flammable, volatile or explosive substances which may include dangerous children paraphernalia (pop-ups, etc.) unless otherwise with authorization from any school personnel directly involved/tasked to supervise where the materials will be used.

15. Membership or affiliation with fraternities, gangs, or association totally or partially organized for the purpose contrary to public morals and the school's objectives, policies, rules and regulation; Engaging in fraternity, gangs or immoral association activities such as hazing, group marking or tattooing, body piercing, etc.

16. Malversation of school funds; impersonal dealings with other members of the community for personal gains but without the consent or authorization of the school or it;s administrators; Unauthorized use of the school's name to solicit funds or donations or other purposes; Malversation of funds (general) such as but not limited to "paluwagan".

17. Sexual Harassment - Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and/or other unwanted and inappropriate verbal, written or physical sexual conduct directed toward others. Also includes stalking, which is approaching or pursuing another person with the intent to place that person in fear of bodily injury or death. May include injury to a third person as a result of the stalking.

18. Any offense analogous to any of the above offenses.

GATE PASS

1. This is secured only when fetching students due to very urgent/emergency matters.

2. Only parents/guardians can secure a gate pass from the Guidance Office or the Clinic. (Students are not allowed to get this pass for whatever reason at all).

3. Tampering with the gate pass is subject to disciplinary action.

HALL PASS

1. Each classroom is issued a hall pass for use when a student needs to go out of their classroom excluding break periods (recess and lunch break), like a need to go to the rest room. This limits the number of students outside of their classroom and avoid loitering during class hours.

2. Tampering or damage to the hall pass is subject to disciplinary action (individual or as a group/section).

ADMISSION SLIP

Issued for Tardy students or for other such intention of admission.

CALL SLIP

Used by the offices to call on students for certain business matters.

OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS:

1. Following consideration of such factors as frequency of the behavior, severity of the behavior and age of the student, principals may use their discretion in establishing the duration of any suspension up to a maximum of ten (10) days.

2. Also, the disciplinary consequences set forth above are guidelines only, and action taken by school officials or the Board of Education may be more or less severe where appropriate.

3. Students and their personal effects are subject to search (by authorized school personnel or their designee) whenever school authorities have reasonable suspicion that the search will produce evidence that the student has violated a school rule or the law. The search to be conducted should have proper authorization coming from the school heads or their designees. To maintain order and security in the schools, school authorities may inspect and search places and areas such as lockers, desks, parking lots, and other school property and equipment owned or controlled by the school, as well as personal effects left in those places and areas by the students, without notice to or the consent of the students, and without a search warrant. School authorities may request the assistance of law enforcement officials for the purpose of conducting inspections and searches or lockers, desks, parking lots, and other school property and equipment owned or controlled by the school for illegal drugs, weapons or other illegal or dangerous substances or materials under scrutiny. If a search conducted in accordance with this section produces evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law, local ordinance, or the school's discipline policies or rules, such evidence may be seized by school authorities, and disciplinary action may be taken. School authorities may also turn over such evidence to law enforcement authorities.

4. The school reserves the right to impose disciplinary measures not contained herein which shall affect the general well-being of the pupil/student body of the school.

5. When a student is suspended or expelled from school, the student is denied entry to any Colegio de Santa Ana School property and to all activities under the direction of Colegio de Santa Ana regardless of time or location unless prior permission is obtained from the Superintendent. If a student who is suspended or expelled trespasses on any school property, the student may be charged with trespassing by the Principal. Trespassing is defined as unauthorized presence on school property after being warned verbally or in writing to leave or not appear on such.