Immediate Removal In any situation involving an immediate threat to personal safety of any member of the Milton community or to the property of the Academy, the head of school may order the immediate removal of a student from the campus. Depending upon the facts of the case, the removal may be permanent or may be continued until such time as an appropriate fact-finding proceeding or hearing procedure or both can be arranged.
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Disciplinary Responses Detention Detention is held on Friday evening, starting at 7:30 p.m. Detention takes precedence over other School commitments. If a student misses detention without an excuse considered valid by the deans’ office, that student will receive an additional penalty as well as serve the missed detention.
Projects The deans’ office, or a designee, may assign projects deemed appropriate to the circumstances of the infraction. Projects are designed to match the particular offense and could include: a project that is intellectually driven (reading a particular work and/or writing a paper pertinent to the topic); meeting a need within the Milton Academy community that is somehow related to the offense; required meetings with a faculty member chosen by the deans’ office. If a student misses assigned project appointments without an excuse considered valid by a dean, that student will receive an additional penalty as well as serve the missed appointment.
Campusing Campusing requires a student to sit in the deans’ office, under the supervision of the deans’ office staff, for the number of hours determined by the committee. Campusing must be completed within the time frame determined by the committee or the student will receive additional disciplinary consequences.
Suspension a. Parents assume full responsibility for the oversight of the destination and the travel arrangements for their child during a suspension. In the event that a parent is not available to oversee a child’s suspension, he or she must designate a School-approved adult who will act in loco parentis until the student is permitted to return to School. The School will not assume travel expenses for a student suspended or dismissed by decision of the Discipline Committee. b. Students who are suspended are not allowed on campus during their suspension unless special permission is granted by the dean of students, academic dean or head of school. c. If a student is suspended during a period of time that includes the weekend, the weekend will count as one day. Long weekends and vacations will also count as one day. d. Upon return to School, the student will not be allowed to participate in games, scrimmages, or competitions for three calendar days, but must attend all practices and meetings. (Due to the length of the seasons and the number of games played per week, the following sports will receive no additional suspension: girls’ and boys’ cross country, football, coed skiing, girls’ and boys’ track and coed sailing.) e. Students suspended for the remainder of a school year may be required to repeat the grade in which they are enrolled at the time of their suspension.
Loss of Leadership Students who appear before a Discipline Committee, who hold a leadership position that involves sitting on Discipline Committees, will lose their positions. Sports team captains automatically lose their positions for any violation of the School’s drug or alcohol policies, or repeated violations of the School’s tobacco policy. Loss of captaincy may result from infractions of other School rules, as well. Students who face disciplinary action after January 1 may not run for or assume a new leadership position. Holding or losing other leadership positions will be reviewed by the deans’ office on a case-by-case basis.
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