Title 17. Education

Chapter 1. General School Law

Part III. Public Schools and School Children

Subpart C. School Attendance

17:223     Discipline of pupils; suspension from school

A. Every teacher is authorized to hold every pupil to a strict accountability for any disorderly conduct in school or on the playground of the school, or on any school bus going to or returning from school, or during intermission or recess. 

B. School principals may suspend from school any pupil for good cause as stated in R.S. 17:416. Principals shall notify the visiting teacher or supervisor of child welfare and attendance of all suspensions. In all cases of suspensions, the parent, the superintendent of schools, and the visiting teacher or supervisor of child welfare and attendance shall be notified in writing of the facts concerning each suspension, including reasons therefor and terms thereof. 

Acts 1964, No. 109, § 2. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 194, § 1; Acts 1976, No. 688, § 1; Acts 1988, No. 898, § 1; Acts 2017, No. 97, § 1; Acts 2017, No. 266, § 1.