Rights and responsibilities of boarders
The rights and responsibilities of boarders are defined and respected.
For schools with boarding facilities:
- Suspension is a temporary removal of a student from the boarding facilities that a student would normally use for a set period of time.
- Expulsion is the permanent removal of a student from the boarding facilities of one particular school.
- Exclusion is the act of preventing a student's admission to a number of schools. In extreme circumstances, the principal of a school may make a submission to an appropriate authority, or to other schools, recommending the permanent exclusion of a student from the registration system if the school is a member, or from other schools.
Evidence of compliance
A registered non-government school must have in place and implement policies and procedures that include:
- codes of conduct for members of the boarding community describing the
- rights and responsibilities of boarders
- role of any student leadership system (or equivalent) in the boarding school organisation and how the system is monitored
- management of student behaviour including but not limited to processes for suspension, expulsion and exclusion that are based on procedural fairness
- a process for handling complaints that describes how matters of concern can be raised and a process for responding to those concerns.