Some events that lead to such encounters are students being late to class, truancy, food fights, smoking, and disruptive conduct in class.

More often, it stems from a fear that a mentally impaired person will engage in disruptive conduct, and a reluctance to take a chance on someone whose grasp of the meaning of the religious message is limited, at best.

Between August and November the society and the four ousted directors published a series of pamphlets, with each side accusing the other of ambitious, disruptive and dishonest conduct.

Reports of serious incidents, which ranged from disruptive conduct to children harming one another or school staff members, increased by more than 200 percent, Ms. Cummings said.

While disruptive and offensive conduct can impair the education process, the free flow of ideas is the essence of education and should be encouraged.

The board's decision to oust him "comes after three years of discussions, notices and warnings concerning his disruptive, ungentlemanly and unacceptable conduct."

The next year, he became headmaster at Hackley, where he soon dismissed more than two dozen students for disruptive conduct and poor academic performance.

The Supreme Court, however, ruled the picketing, including the disruptive conduct, were fully protected under section 2 of the Charter.

In a dissenting view, Justice Francis M. McDonald wrote that "The majority finds that possession of marijuana might not be recognized by students as conduct 'seriously disruptive of the educational process.'

The University defended its actions saying that Kemp was dismissed for "disruptive conduct and for failure to conduct adequate scholarly research."