Discipline Codes

Parents and students are requested to note that the following practices are unacceptable and will invite strict disciplinary action. Please refer to the section on disciplinary measures:

• Disfiguring or damaging school property.
• Bunking School and classes
• Bringing articles such as expensive watches, cameras, irrelevant CD, mobile phones, laptop, electronic pens, i-pads, i-pods etc. to school.
• Using abusive language.
• Not wearing the school uniform, during the term.
• Damaging, scribbling on or tearing pages from library books or text or exercise books.
• Bringing sharp articles (knives, etc.) which can cause injury.
• Smoking, gambling, drinking or using psychotropic, narcotic drugs.
• Bursting firecrackers or throwing color/ water on one another within or near the school premises.
• Late arrival in classes/ School.
• Assembling at or going to the book shop, cafeteria, and hostel during regular class time.
• Stealing/ borrowing without permission.
• Bullying, teasing or harassment of any kind.
• Sloganeering and signature campaigns.
• Chewing flavored gum, betel nut, tobacco etc.
• Trinkets: Girls are not allowed to wear trinkets in school. Trinkets include hanging earrings, hoops, bangles, anklets, chains etc. They can wear any small ear tops without hangings.
• A few major Discipline Code/Rules are elaborated below:

HAZING, BULLYING, HARRASEMENT & ASSAULT

• Physical violence and all forms of threatening, abusive or intimidator behaviour is forbidden.
• Any form of intimidation or harassment (including sexual harassment) by one student or group of students towards another is not permitted.
• Offensive weapons (or toys which look like offensive weapons) should not be brought on to campus.
• Breach of this rule may lead the Discipline Council to expel, suspend or otherwise punish the student concerned.
• The Discipline Council will consider the extent of the violence, threat, abuse, intimidation or harassment and the actual harm or potential harm caused by this.

STEALING OR "BORROWING WITHOUT PERMISSION"

• Students may not remove the possessions of others without their consent.
• Such removal is considered as theft. Students found in possession of stolen items will be assumed to have stolen them.
• Should the Discipline Council find a student guilty of theft, in the absence of compelling mitigating circumstances, the student may be expelled.
• The Discipline Council may consider as compelling, mitigating circumstances such as the student's prior good academic or extra-curricular record or good record of behavior.

RESIDENTIAL MIXED SOCIALIZATION

• Students should not engage in mixed socializing (i.e., boys and girls in the same area) in those areas of residences demarcated as only for boys or only for girls.
• The disciplinary application for this rule applies to all students found together in a mixed socializing gathering, and students who come across such a gathering and do not wish to be found in breach of the rule must leave the gathering immediately.
• The Discipline Council may suspend or expel (from school or residence) and place on Principal's Warning students in breach of this rule.
• The Discipline Council may consider as compelling mitigating circumstances the student's prior good academic or extra-curricular record or record of good behavior.
• Aggravating circumstances may lead to the Disciplinary Committee expelling a student.