Student Conduct Policy

The Pine Forge Academy administration, faculty and staff members expect all students - both on and off campus - to observe the policies, regulations, and standards essential to the achievement of the goals and objectives of Christian education. Being a student at Pine Forge Academy is a privilege and not a right; therefore each student is held personally responsible to uphold the specific standards of conduct, integrity, and morality compatible with the principles and doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist philosophy.

Students who fail to respond to appeals made to their sense of honor based on infractions of the Disciplinary Code, and whose influence is found to be decidedly harmful based on violations where an aggregate number of violations permit suspension, will not be allowed to remain even though they may not have been adjudged guilty of a major offense. For the purposes of this section, major offenses are defined as offenses that subject the student to suspension or expulsion.

The parent may be assured that students will be given every opportunity to develop a Christian character as long as he/she expresses a desire to cooperate with the institution.

Whenever, in the judgment of the Academy, the character of a student's work is such that attendance is no longer profitable to him/her, or the nature of his/her conduct is such that he/she is a detriment to the school, the Academy reserves the right to dismiss the student. The administration also reserves the right, when occasion demands, to impose fines or other penalties for the violation of its regulations.

Pine Forge Academy defines discipline as acts of love taken to bring one who has strayed back into harmony with the body. To encourage appropriate behavior at all times, Pine Forge Academy has instituted a merit point system. Inappropriate behavior will result in the accumulation of demerit points, citizenship probation, suspension, or expulsion.