Code of Student Conduct
prohibition of corporal punishment
XIX. Prohibition of Corporal Punishment
A. No teacher, administrator, officer, employee or agent of a
school district in this state, shall use corporal punishment against a
student. As used in this section, corporal punishment means
any act of physical force upon a student for the purpose of
punishing that student, except as otherwise provided in the
next sub section. In situations in which alternative procedures and
methods not involving the use of physical force cannot
reasonably be employed, nothing contained in this section shall be
construed to prohibit the use of reasonable physical force
for the following purposes:
1. to protect oneself from physical
injury;
2. to protect another student or
teacher or any person from physical injury;
3. to protect the property of the
school or others; or
4. to restrain or remove a student
whose behavior is interfering with the orderly exercise and performance
of school district
functions, powers and duties, if that
student has refused to comply with a request to refrain from further
disruptive acts.