The Discipline of the Pupils
Trustees of the Brookeville Academy dealt with the discipline of the pupils in response to defacing school property, insubordination during school, or breaches of conduct outside of school. Any school property defaced or destroyed was to be paid for immediately by the pupil committing the act or by all of the pupils if no one pupil could be identified as the culprit unless it was determined that someone not associated with the Academy had produced the damages (1811).

In regard to a student's insubordination, the Principal was given the power to suspend the student and then the Board of Trustees would review the matter to decide if the student should be expelled (1811). The Trustees believed that the minds of children could be injuriously affected by being frequent spectators to acts of corporal punishment... and that it ought to be resorted to in school with great caution and only used in cases of obstinacy or where other means fail to have the desired effect.(27)

27 "Fundamental Rules of Brookeville School, 1811," Brookeville Academy Minute Book, Vol. 1, 1810-1831, Montgomery County Historical Society Library.