§ 20-33-8-9 — Disciplinary powers of teachers and school staff members

Indiana § 20-33-8-9

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 20: EDUCATION
• Art. 33: STUDENTS: GENERAL PROVISIONS
• Ch. 8: Student Discipline

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(a) This section applies to an individual who:
(1) is a teacher or other school staff member; and
(2) has students under the individual's charge.
(b) An individual may take any action that is reasonably necessary
to carry out or to prevent an interference with an educational function
that the individual supervises.
(c) Subject to rules of the governing body and the administrative
staff, an individual may remove a student for a period that does not
exceed five (5) school days from an educational function supervised by
the individual or another individual who is a teacher or other school
staff member.
(d) If an individual removes a student from a class under subsection
(c), the principal may place the student in another appropriate class or
placement or into inschool suspension. The principal may not return
the student to the class from which the student was removed until the
principal has met with the student, the student's teacher, and the
student's parents to determine an appropriate behavior plan for the
student. If the student's parents do not meet with the principal and the
student's teacher within a reasonable amount of time, the student may
be moved to another class at the principal's discretion.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-8.1-5.1-4.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.17. Amended by P.L.121-2009, SEC.13.