Student Discipline: Right to Exclude

Post date: November 20, 2018

According to State law, you have the right to exclude any student from your classroom if they are disrupting the educational environment. The law, RCW 28A.600.020 Section 2, states:

(2) Any student who creates a disruption of the educational process in violation of the building disciplinary standards while under a teacher's immediate supervision may be excluded by the teacher from his or her individual classroom and instructional or activity area for all or any portion of the balance of the school day, or up to the following two days, or until the principal or designee and teacher have conferred, whichever occurs first. Except in emergency circumstances, the teacher first must attempt one or more alternative forms of corrective action. In no event without the consent of the teacher may an excluded student return to the class during the balance of that class or activity period or up to the following two days, or until the principal or his or her designee and the teacher have conferred.

REA has requested inclusion of the RCW into our latest contract language. The District, however, is reluctant to add the provision reasons that remain unclear to the Bargaining Team.

Contract language under: Section 7K. Student Discipline, page 41

If you find that you must exclude a student from your class, you may find it helpful to use form: