Educators, learners and parents/caregivers should be held accountable for instilling
learner discipline through clear guidelines and limitations to achieve security at
public schools. Two previously identified education challenges are sustaining well-
disciplined education systems and ensuring that educators are attentive to legal
parameters in making decisions and dealing with discipline. This article adds a third
challenge: convincing educators, learners and parents/caregivers of their accounta-
bility concerning creating/maintaining safe learning environments. Five subordinate
legislation documents relevant to legal accountability are scrutinized, as well as
relevant case law. The article follows a documentary comparative perspective using
a secondary analysis method: appraising legal guidelines and asking questions to
draw conclusions and make pragmatic action-oriented suggestions.

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