The safety and well being of every student, the school staff and the educational and disciplinary environment of our Catholic Schools are of paramount importance. Catholic school authorities, therefore, must often make judgments which are intended to directly and quickly address potential problems and dangers they perceive based upon information received or obtained and/or behavior observed with respect to particular student or group of students.

                Therefore, the provisions of this section may be invoked by school authorities without prior notice to the student or the student’s parents in any instance where school authorities possess information which leads them to conclude that a reasonable possibility exists that any of the following events either have occurred, are underway or may occur absent of intervention:

A.   A student has engaged in or has threatened to engage in any illegal conduct, whether or not on school      

       property;

B.   A student has engaged in or threatened, attempted or made plans to engage in any intentional conduct      

       that did, may or would present a risk of physical harm to any person or persons, whether or not on

       school property;

C.       A student has voluntarily participated in or assisted in any conduct which, although not itself illegal,

       encourages, invites or entices, by word or example, any person to engage in conduct violative of the

       law or violative of the Code of Christian Conduct;

D.      A student knowingly possessed, used, transmitted or been under the influence of any controlled

substance, alcoholic beverage or intoxicant of any kind on school property or at any school function;

E.       A student knowingly possesses, handles, conceals or transmits any object that could be used as a

weapon or instrument of destruction on school property or at any school function;

F.       A student knows, but fails to disclose to school authorities, that another students either:

(i)                   has threatened or made plans to engage in conduct that would intentionally present a risk of physical harm to any person or persons; or

(ii)                 has possessed, handled, concealed or transmitted any object that could have been used as an instrument of destruction on school property or at any school function.

                Upon the receipt of such information, school authorities, in addition to all other remedies available, shall have the authority to confront the student and/or the student’s parents or guardians and to impose, as a condition of such student’s continued enrollment, any reasonable requirements and/or restrictions upon such student and his or her parents or guardians which, in the opinions of school authorities are necessary to protect the general student body, the school itself, the educational mission of the school and/or members of the general public. The failure or refusal of a student or a parent to comply with such requirements, conditions and/or restrictions shall be grounds for the immediate expulsion of the student.