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The school disciplinary system from the perspective of rule by law

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Frontiers of Education in China

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Discipline affects students’ rights and interests greatly. If there is no scientific and efficient system to standardize it, the disciplinary rights of students will be easily abused, which will not only infringe on students’ rights and interests but also give rise to campus disputes. The problems of the disciplinary system in Chinese primary and middle schools are as follows: disciplinary actions lack a legal basis; the disciplinary system is not standardized; disciplinary enforcement infringes on students’ other legal rights; and the mechanism for the supervision of discipline is imperfect. The status and modes of discipline should be made clear in the legislation to make the school disciplinary system detailed and specific, the disciplinary enforcement equitable and reasonable, and the procedure of the disciplinary enforcement justifiable, and also ensure that students’ other legal rights are protected.

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  1. Institute of Education, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Shen Su-ping

  2. Beijing Middel School No. 47, Beijing, 100095, China

    Li Rui-ling

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Translated from Journal of the Chinese Society of Education, 2005 (10)

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Shen, Sp., Li, Rl. The school disciplinary system from the perspective of rule by law. Front. Educ. China 1, 567–576 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-006-0030-3

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