It is the policy of Dagupan Elementary School (DES) to create, promote, and maintain a respectful, safe, secure, stimulating, and supportive learning environment in order to optimize student learning, safety, and effectiveness. DES upholds discipline as a very essential element of an educative teaching-learning program and, therefore, considers maintenance of good discipline among students as a necessary precondition in establishing a school climate that is conducive to learning. The school also recognizes that discipline begins at home with parents who are the first and primary educators and formators for their children. Such formation includes responsibility for social development, behavior, and discipline. Hence, partnership by the school with parents in the support of the students’ social, emotional, and academic growth is very much part of the school’s program.

The Child Protection Committee supports the school’s use of a continuum of positive practices that strive to teach, promote, and reinforce productive behaviors while providing predictable and supportive consequences to behaviours that are identified as inappropriate. The Committee also supports the school’s existing progressive approach to discipline which is incorporated in its Code of Discipline, activities and projects that promote interpersonal and social skills, and programs that enhance and build healthy relationships. Finally, the Committee strongly supports the Department of Education’s objective of promoting a zero-tolerance policy for any act of child abuse, exploitation, violence, discrimination, bullying, and other forms of peer abuse.