DISCIPLINE

The Principal and the Vice-Principals are responsible for the discipline in the school, with the assistance of all the Loyola teachers.

There is, at Loyola, a hard core of common discipline necessary for for the smooth running of school. Punctuality, neatness, uniformity of dress, courtesy, consideration for others and a co-operative spirit are insisted upon. We also encourage initiative and positive expression of creative energy. The aim is that self discipline, to be of any positive value, should, by stages, become part of every student's personal equipment for life.

Freedom and autonomy are the basis of discipline. The students are left free to accept the atmosphere of the school, to learn in free and cooperative manner. The school has no penal system for handling students who are found to be regularly unco-operative. Parents are simply asked them to put in another school which may be more suited to them. Freedom and its counterpart, responsibility, have to be learned slowly and freely accepted, in an atmosphere in which students exercise judgement and make free choices about matters to their age and level of understanding. Students' mistakes are tolerated as a part of their process of learning, but repeated misbehaviour against the spirit of the School and hindering other students from peacefully learning is not tolerated, even if this causes pain to the parents of the stubborn, uncooperative students.