The Supreme Court, in Ingraham et al v. Wright et al (April 19, 1977), stated that the constitution "holds that corporal punishment in public schools, no matter how severe, can never be the subject of the protections afforded by the Eighth Amendment. It also holds that students in the public school systems are not constitutionally entitled to a hearing of any sort before beatings can be inflicted on them."
While corporal punishment is out of vogue today, there is nothing from stopping an individual school system from instituting a system of 'student discipline' that has no checks and balances. We should codify the rights of student citizens now.