Discipline is an essential part of educational excellence. Discipline is a shared responsibility among the home, school, and community. The family assumes the initial responsibility for helping the child develop physically, intellectually, socially, emotionally, and ethically. The school provides additional opportunities to promote the individual's growth in these five critical areas. Children enter school at various levels of development. The school recognizes these levels of maturation and addresses each situation as it occurs. In this manner, the school promotes personal growth, societal responsibility and citizenship.

In a democratic society, individuals must work with others and share the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. Therefore, the development of self-discipline and the acceptance of personal responsibility are important goals of education. Students help create an environment in which learning can take place by mastering self-discipline and modeling appropriate behavior in the school and community.