Shelby County Board of Education
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6003



FACULTY-STUDENT RELATIONS



Faculty members shall be expected to regard each student as an individual and to accord each the rights and respect due any individual. The role of faculty shall be seen, not as dictators or controllers, but as resource persons, aides, and guides in the learning processes. Faculty members shall provide for the fullest self-determination by each student in regard to his or her learning program, consistent with system and local goals and with optimum opportunities for all students. Students shall be treated with courtesy and consideration. Neither insults nor sarcasm shall be used before a student's peers as a way of forcing compliance with a faculty member's requirements or expectations.

Each student is urged to regard faculty members as people with specific knowledge and capabilities which can be well utilized to advance the student's own knowledge and development.

Students shall be expected to regard faculty members as individuals, employed to provide direct or indirect contributions to learning. While students are to have considerable latitude in making choices for themselves, they shall be required to respect the right of faculty members (and other students, as well) and interference with those rights shall not be condoned. No student shall have the right to interfere with the efforts of the instructional faculty to coordinate or assist in learning, to disseminate information for purposes of learning, or to otherwise implement a learning program. Nor shall a student have the right to interfere with the motivation to learn or the learning activities and efforts or other students.



Adopted 02/24/77