For students in Rhetoric School, discipline is designed to be simple, immediate, and consistent in order to aid the student in taking personal responsibility for his or her actions. For disciplinary actions,
- Most issues remain at the classroom level and are corrected by the teacher.
- Teachers may send students to the headmaster’s office (or dean of students’ office) for disciplinary action for behavior that is not quickly realigned following correction, or misaligned behavior of a more serious nature.
- Under the headmaster’s (or dean of students) discretion and direction, the student receives disciplinary action and then is instructed either a) to immediately call his or her parent(s) and explain the nature of the infraction and the consequence, or b) to wait and tell his or her parent(s) at home.
- Infractions and demerits are assigned by the headmaster or dean of students.