General Senior High School Rules

Senior high school is an interesting if not the most interesting level of education, as interesting as it is the there several rules that guides the daily activities of students.

Although each senior high school may have their own sorts of punishment for each offends committed by their to students, these offends and punishment are general common to most senior high schools.

Also failure to observe any of the following schools rule during mid-term, public holidays and weekends calls for punishment corresponding to the offence committed.

Note: Offends are in red and black and punishment in green.

Examinations

Cheating during examination or class test.
  1. Cancellation of papers, 2 weeks external suspension and counseling.
  2. For promotional exams, the student will be repeated in the class.

Classes and Assignment

Skipping Classes

Failure to attend classes

Hiding in the dormitories during class hours.

Persistent absence from classes

  1. 5 days external suspension and counseling.
  2. Deboardinization.
  3. Dismissal
Assignments

Failure to do class assignments

Persistent refusal to do class assignments and failure to write end of term examination.

  1. One-week external suspension and counseling.
  2. Dismissal

Preps

Skipping Preps

Failure to attend Prep.

Hiding in the dormitories during Prep.

Persistent absence from Prep.

  1. 5 days external suspension and counseling.
  2. Deboardinization.
  3. Dismissal
Disturbaning at Prep
  1. 1st Offence: One-day internal suspension
  2. 2nd Offence: 5 days external suspension

Disrespecting

Disrespecting a Teacher
  1. 1st Offence: 2 weeks external suspension.
  2. 2nd Offence: Dismissal.
Refusing to do a Teacher’s punishment
  1. 5 days external suspension plus the completion of the original work.
Deceiving Teachers
  1. 2 weeks external suspension, counseling and signing a bond of good behavior.
Disrespecting a Prefects
  1. 1st Offence 3 days internal suspension
  2. 2nd Offence 5 days internal suspension.
Refusing to do a Prefect’s punishment.
  1. 3 days internal suspension plus the completion of the original work.

Dressing

Improper Dressing
  1. 3 days internal suspension.
Unauthorized Clothing
  1. 1st Offence – Confiscation of the items for good and 1 week internal suspension.
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension.
Bushy hair, Facial hair, Bleaching of hair or Unacceptable haircut.
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and removal of hair style by student himself
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization.
Alterations on the School uniforms.
  1. Confiscation of the altered uniform, One-week internal suspension and signing a bond of good behavior.

EXEATS AND BREAKING OF BOUNDS

Leaving the School compound without permission.
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and counseling.
  2. 2nd Offence – Indefinite suspension.
Late/failure to return from Mid-term or Holidays on time without a plausible explanation

  1. Internal suspension with graduated manual work according to the number of days spent outside school.
  2. Student is deboardinized if two weeks or more is spent outside school.
Over staying of exeat

Failure to return to School from exeat at the stipulated time on the same day.

Over staying of exeat for one or more days.

  1. One-day internal suspension and a forfeiture of exeat for one term
  2. One-week external suspension and deboardinization.

Meetings and Programs

Organizing meetings/programs without approval.

Organizing meetings/programs in the School without approval.

Organizing and taking students to programs outside the School without approval

  1. 2 weeks external suspension/ deboardinization

Social GATHERINGS

Lateness to School gathering
  1. 1st Offence – One-day internal suspension.
  2. 2nd Offence – 3 days internal suspension.
Failure to attend School gathering
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks internal suspension.
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension or deboardinization.

BOARDING HOUSE

Receiving visitors at the wrong time/non visiting time/days.
  1. 1st Offence – 5 days external suspension.
  2. 2nd Offence – deboardinization
Seeing visitors off beyond the specified areas.
  1. 1st Offence – 5 days internal suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – 5 days external suspension
  3. 3rd Offence – deboardinization.
Housing a suspened or a deboardinized student in the dormitory.
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension, signing a bond of good behavior and payment of 3 times the boarding fee for the number of days.
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization.
Entertaining a stranger in the dormitory
  1. 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization
Indecent exposure
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks internal suspension, counseling and signing a bond of good behavior
Neglecting house duties.
  1. 1st Offence – Insistence of the work to be done, One-week internal suspension, signing a bond of good behavior and counseling.
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinzation.
Unauthorized return of deboardinized student to the boarding house.
  1. Paying 3 times the boarding fee for the number of days in the Boarding house and indefinite suspension pending the decision of the Board.
Unauthorised shifting for boarder to day student

Temporarily declaring oneself day student without informing the authorities.

Permanently leaving the boarding house without informing the authorities concerned.

  1. Deboardinization
  2. Payment of 3 times the boarding fees and deboardinization
Defecating in the dormitories
  1. 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization with counseling.
Jumping dormitory walls
  1. Deboardinization
Illegal electrical connection
  1. Payment for damage caused if any and deboardinization

DINING

Failure to go to the dining hall
  1. 1st Offence – 5 days internal suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension
  3. 3rd Offence – deboardinization
Sending food out of the dining hall
  1. 1st Offence – 2 days internal suspension and counseling
  2. 2nd Offence – deboardinization
Failure to use cup, plate and cutlery in the dining hall
  1. 1st Offence – 3 days internal suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks internal suspension
Looting food in the dining hall
  1. Paying for 3 times the cost of the food and deboardinization

UNAUTHORIZED ITEMS

Possession of electrical appliances (except electric iron)
  1. 1st Offence Confiscation of the appliance and 1 week external Suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – Confiscation of the appliance, 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization
Cooking in the dormitory

  1. 1st Offence – Confiscation of the cooking items and 1 week external suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension, and deboardinization
Unauthorized sales in the School in any form
  1. 1st Offence – Confiscation of the items and 2 weeks external suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – Deboardinization
Possession of mobile phone(s) or any unauthorized gadgets in the School
  1. 1st Offence – Confiscation of the mobile phone/ gadget for good and 2 weeks external suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – Confiscation of items for good, and deboardinization
Failure to hand over unauthorized items
  1. 1st Offence – Confiscation of items for good and 5 days external suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – Deboardinization

MORAL ISSUES

Unofficial language

Indecent Language

Speaking of Pidgin English

  1. 2 weeks external suspension
  2. Writing lines and 3 days internal suspension
Gambling
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and counseling
  2. 2nd Offence – Deboardinization pending investigations
Negligence of duty as a Prefects
  1. 1st Instance – Warning and counseling
  2. 2nd Instance – Removal from office
Students found with the opposite sex in obscure places
  1. 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization
Sexual misconduct
  1. Dismissal
Practicing Occultism/Possession of occult materials
  1. Indefinite suspension/dismissal pending investigations
Embarrassment of visitors on School compound
  1. 2 weeks internal suspension
Forgery
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and counseling

DESTRUCTION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY

Deliberate destruction of School property

Destruction of School property or materials

Wasteful use of water

  1. 1st Offence – Payment of 3 times the cost of the damaged item/property and 2 weeks external suspension and counseling
  2. 2nd Offence – Payment of three times the cost of the item, 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization
Inciting students to demonstrate
  1. 2 weeks external suspension, indefinite suspension or dismissal depending on the seriousness of the offence pending investigations.
Writing and drawing on walls
  1. Painting the defaced wall and 2 weeks external suspension

ASSAULTing

Fighting

Fighting in the School

Fighting with lethal weapon

  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and counseling.
  2. 2nd Offence – Deboardinization and indefinite suspension pending investigation
Attacks

Physical Attack on Members of Staff and their dependants

Physical attack on Prefects

  1. Indefinite suspension/dismissal
  2. 2 weeks external suspension and counseling and deboardinization
Possession of weapons
  1. Confiscation/seizure
  2. Indefinite suspension pending investigation /dismissal
  3. Hand over to Police

DRUGS

Possession and/or use of Drugs

Possession and/or use of alcoholic drinks

Sniffing/smoking of any type of material such as marijuana (wee)

  1. Indefinite suspension pending investigation and counseling
  2. Hand over to police
Possession of contraceptive
  1. 1st Offence – Confiscation of the contraceptive and 2 weeks internal suspension/counseling
  2. 2nd Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and deboardinization
Possession and use of dangerous hard drugs
  1. Confiscation of the drugs and indefinite suspension, pending investigation by the Board

BULLYING AND EXTORTION

Administering corporal punishment and abuse of office by seniors and student leaders
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and counseling
  2. 2nd Offence – Removal from office and indefinite suspension pending investigation
Bullying and Extortion
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension
  2. 2nd Offence – Deboardinization

Stealing

Stealing
  1. 1st Offence – 2 weeks external suspension and counseling (with restitution)
  2. 2nd Offence – Indefinite suspension pending investigation (with restitution)
Burglary(Break-in)

Burglary – internal

Joining robbers to steal

  1. Dismissal