Directives Number 1 for the Year 1998

Directives for school discipline based on clause 5 of the sixth article of Ministry of Education Law Number (3) for the year 1994.

First: These directives shall be called (Directives for School Discipline in Public and Private Schools for the year 1998) and shall be put into effect on 1/1/1998.

Second: the following words and expressions shall have the specific meanings given for each of them unless otherwise stated:

The Ministry: Ministry of Education.
The Minister: Minister of Education.
The Directorate: Directorate of Education.
The Directorate General: Directorate General of Education.
The School: Every educational institution contains a part of a level or more of the versatile levels of education, in which, 10 students are being taught legally, along with 1 teacher or more practices teaching.
The Teacher: Every person in charged for teaching or specialized educational service in any educational institution (Public/Private).
The Student: Any student of public/private school.
The Council: "The Discipline Council" established under the provisions of these directives.

Third: The school shall take up protective and curative procedures to positively convert the behavior of students in the following cases:

• A non-legal absence for students.
• Leaving the school's campus during the school day, without taking a previous permeation from the headmaster of the school.
• Smoking within the school's campus.
• Violating the rules and regulations.
• Arousing chaos and disorder within the class or the school's campus.
• Spilling out odd words that contradict the norms.
• Breaking down or damage the school's tools and obliged him/her to fix the damage. Any other similar behaviors.

Fourth: A warning punishment is to be set on the violating student after a recommendation of the class master and a decision of the school headmaster, in the following cases:

• If the student repeated any of the previous violations.
• Bringing publications or photographs contradict the norms to the school.
• Possession of sharp tools or any tool that could be used in violent behaviors.
• Practicing or participating in instigation to interrupt the lecture or the educational process.
• Stealing or thriving any of students or employees of the school's stuff.

Fifth: Movement within the schools related to the same governorate:
Movement within the schools related to the same governorate punishment is to be set the violating student after a decision made by the Council and consent of the headmaster, in the following cases:

• If the warning punishment did not positively affect him/her.
• Cursing or swearing at the Supreme Being, Holy Religions or Prophets.
• If he/she caused or contributed in damaging any of the school's properties.

Sixth: Preventing student from education till the end of the scholastic year for the students of public and private schools:
Preventing student from education till the end of the scholastic year punishment shall take place after a decision made by the Council and consent of the headmaster, in the following cases:

• If the student repeated any of the previous violations.
• Insulting any of the teachers.
• Taking drugs or alcoholic drinks or intoxicants.
• Using a sharp tool to do violence to a student or any of the school's employees.
• If he/she caused or contributed in damaging any of the school's properties, stealing or messing with its documents and educational facilities.

Seventh: Upon a recommendation from the Council, the headmaster's advice and the minister's decision, preventing from education in public and private schools shall take place, in the following cases: (with reference to what declared on paragraph (c) of the tenth article of Ministry of Education Law Number (3) for the year 1994)

• If the student repeated any of the violations stated on the sixth article.
• Committing non-pure behavior that contradicts the norms, such as; indecent behaviors, sexual abuse or insulting others.
• Attacking one of the school's teachers or employees by the student himself or by using others.
• Harming one of the students with a solid device or sharp tool with a previous intention.
• Promoting drugs or alcoholic drinks or intoxicants.
• Putting the school's general safety endanger.
• Causing damage to the school's properties individually or together.

Eighth: The Discipline Council:
A Discipline Council is to be formed in every school having a seventh grade or higher. As follows:

• The headmaster (or the one in charged as a president).
• Four teachers as members (elected secretly by the educational structure upon every scholastic year).
• The class master for which the student belongs to as a member.
• A representative of the Parents Council, not being a member of the school's educational structure.
• A representative of the students to be elected by the Students' Councils members.
• The headmaster as president, teachers as members, Parents' and Students Councils representatives all shall form the Council in schools that have insufficient number of teachers.

• The headmaster shall report to the Director General the names of the Council's members, in the beginning of every scholastic year.
• The Council shall assemble upon the president's invitation, based on a written and dated complaint signed by the complainer.
• The president or any member shall be excluded out of the Council, if he/she was the complainer or a part of the case.
• The council can assemble with the absence of Students' Council representatives.
• The quorum of the Council and its decisions shall be legal with a presence of two thirds of the members including the president or his deputy. If the votes were equal the president side has to exist. However the decisions have to be made according to the majority's voting.

• To collect written statement from the complainer, the accused and the witnesses unaccompanied in the presence of the Council.
• To meet for reviewing the complaint, making decisions or recommendations within a period not to exceed 3 working days of the complaint's submitting day.
• To arrange the questioning minutes and the Council's decisions all signed by the Council's members. The punishments that have to be approved by the Director General and known to the Ministry, a copy of which has to be sent to the Director General, and another to be preserved in the school.
• To document the decisions made by the Council after being signed by all the members and register them in a binder at the school.

Ninth: General Provisions:
Neither the Council nor the school have the write to practice any of the followings:

1. Physical punishment.
2. Practice or threat the student to use a school marks reduction.
3. Strip the student from having his/her meal in time.
4. Order the student to copy the assignments, or to assign him/her exercises more than his/her colleagues.
5. Sarcasm or make fun a student's disability.
6. Humiliate or put down the student.
7. Apply a collective punishment because of a violation made by a student or a group of students.

1. The student's good behavior after consulting the counselor.
2. The chronic health disorder of the student legitimated by a medical report issued before the violation happen.
3. The psychical situation of the student that pushed him/her to do that violation.
4. If the complainer has relinquished before the issuance of the decision.

Tenth: theses directives call off the Directives for school discipline Number (4) for the year 1988

Please note that the authentic text for the Directives Number 1 for the Year 1998 is Arabic language and this is the non-official translation.