FILE: JCDAD
SCHOOL BUS CONDUCT
The Rapides Parish School Board shall require the principal to assume full responsibility for discipline of students riding buses. The bus operator shall be responsible for maintaining proper conduct of all students who are riding the bus. Any disciplinary problems shall be reported by the operator to the principal of the school involved. It is the duty of the operator, in case of any infraction of rules by any student, to notify the principal of the school the student attends, by completing and submitting a School Bus Behavior Report Form. If possible, this must be done in person. The principal shall be responsible for determining the necessary punishment of students violating school bus conduct regulations.
Any parent of a student suspended from riding a school bus shall have the right to appeal to the Superintendent, who shall conduct a hearing on the merits of the bus suspension.
A student damaging a school bus shall be subject to suspension from school. Any student suspended for damages to any school bus shall not be readmitted until payment in full has been made for such damage or until his/her readmittance is directed by the Superintendent.
At no time shall the bus operator assume authority for suspending bus privileges or taking such disciplinary action as requiring a student to kneel or inflicting corporal punishment. If the conduct of a student becomes such that his/her removal from the bus becomes essential, the operator shall discharge the student at the student's regular stop. A student riding a school bus shall never be unloaded along the highway except at his/her designated stop, unless he/she is endangering the lives of other children on the bus.
Revised: May, 2014
Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:81, 17:223, 17:416, 17:416.1
Louisiana School Transportation Specifications and Procedures, Bulletin 119, Louisiana Department of Education
Board minutes, 9-2-14
Rapides Parish School Board