- Aggressive Physical Contact: Aggressive physical contact includes hitting, punching, kicking, hair pulling, scratching, choking, tripping, pinching, slapping, head-butting, etc.
- Cheating or Copying: Cheating includes, but is not limited to: lying; copying from another’s test or examination; discussion at any time of answers or questions on an examination or test, unless such discussion is specifically authorized by the teacher; taking or receiving copies of an exam without the permission of the teacher; using or displaying notes, “cheat sheets,” or other information devices inappropriate to the prescribed test conditions; or impersonating someone who is supposed to be taking an exam.
- Disorderly Conduct: Disorderly conduct refers to engaging in any willful act which disrupts the normal operation of the school community. This may include obscuring vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
- Disrespectful to Staff Member: A student is being disrespectful when their speech or behavior shows that they do not think someone or something is valuable, important, etc.
- Lack of respect examples include:
- calling the teacher by a first name or nickname;
- talking when the teacher is talking; and/or
- demonstrating rudeness or lack of manners
- Lack of respect examples include:
- Documentation Only: This referral will be used if a discipline referral is unfounded but the administrator wants to retain a record of the referral.
- Failure to Follow Cafeteria Rules: This infraction includes any conduct that occurs in the cafeteria that is not covered in any other definition. Examples include not picking up after oneself, throwing food, not following established traffic patterns, talking too loudly or shouting, not sitting in assigned seat, etc.
- Failure to Follow Rules: This infraction will be used to cover any minor violation of school or classroom rules not covered in any other definition. Examples include talking out of turn, leaving seat without permission, etc.
- Gambling: Gambling is to engage in any game of chance for money or other stakes.
- Horseplay: Rough or rowdy physical play that may involve grabbing, pinching, non-aggressive punching or slapping, chasing, pushing, shoving, or wrestling, and is consensual between all participants.
- Inappropriate Language or Gesture: Inappropriate language includes: swearing, cursing, talk about inappropriate things, sexual comments, inappropriate innuendos, “inside jokes” as indicated by laughing after the comment or words; code words or symbolic language to represent something inappropriate; repeating others in a deliberate and patronizing way; speaking to others in a condescending or mocking manner; using variations or inappropriate words and phrases; using sensitive words in an insulting or joking manner, like “retarded” or “gay;” using racial, stereotypical, or culturally insensitive words. Inappropriate gestures include a movement or position of the body, especially of the hands or arms, that is considered exceedingly offensive or vulgar in some particular cultures. Such gestures are often sexually suggestive.
- Inappropriate Sexual Contact: Inappropriate sexual contact includes any touching of the anus, breast, or any part of the genitals of another person with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.
- Incomplete Formative Assignment: A student who has an incomplete formative assignment failed to complete and/or submit a formative assignment to a teacher by the established deadline.
- Incomplete Summative Assignment: A student who has an incomplete summative assignment failed to complete and/or submit a summative assignment to a teacher by the established deadline.
- Insubordination: Failure, refusal, or neglect of a reasonable request made by a school staff member of administrator.
- Late to Class: A student is late for class if they arrive after the bell rings without a signed pass from another school staff member.
- Left Class Without Permission: A student is considered to have left class without permission if the classroom teacher or adult in charge did not provide explicit permission for the student to leave before the end of the class period.
- Left School Without Permission: Students may only leave the school building with permission from a parent, guardian or school official. If this permission has not be granted in advance and if the main office has not received notification of this permission, the student is in violation of this rule.
- Making Unreasonable Noise: When a student is making a noise, playing music, banging on lockers or doors, shouting, screaming, yelling, or laughing loudly enough to disrupt the learning environment, they are considered to have been making unreasonable noise.
- Missing From Class: A student is missing from class if they are not present to a class for which they have been assigned and have no legitimate reason for the absence.
- Missing From Detention: A student is considered missing from detention is they fail to report to a detention to which they were assigned. Students who are not able to attend detention must notify a school administrator and make arrangements to reschedule the assigned detention.
- Not Following School Procedures: When students don’t follow school procedures, they fail to complete tasks or fail to complete them in the established manner. Examples include not signing in or out of school or class, not informing a teacher they have a music lesson, etc.
- Peer Conflict: Peer conflict occurs when two students mutually engage in arguing, name calling or other anti-social behavior.
- Plagiarism: Plagiarism is defined as the act of using the ideas or work of another person or persons as if they were one’s own without giving proper credit to the source. Proper credit includes the use of quotation marks for direct quotes and parenthetical citations for paraphrased ideas.
- Possession of Dangerous Item: Dangerous items include matches, lighters, firecrackers, gasoline, lighter fluids or other combustible items, lasers, toy weapons, and ammunition.
- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia: Drug paraphernalia is equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, concealing, containing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance. Drug paraphernalia includes, but is not limited to rolling papers, pipes, and bongs.
- Public Display of Affection: Public Displays of Affection include mouth to mouth kissing, prolonged hugging, standing, leaning, or sitting with bodies pressed together.
- Running in Hallways: Running in hallways occurs when students are jogging or sprinting inside the school building, unless under the direction of a teacher or coach.
- Selling, Using, or Possessing Obscene Material: Obscene material is any printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings. This includes “Sexting” which is the creation and dissemination of sexually explicit language, photographs, and video.
- Tardy to School: A student is considered tardy for school if he/she is not in their first assigned class or homeroom when the bell rings. Tardiness may be excused by parents for the same reasons as a legal absence only.
- Theft: Theft refers to stealing something (taking something that does not belong to you). It may also involve hiding/purchasing stolen property or aiding someone in stealing.
- Tobacco Product Possession: Student has in his/her possession cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco products, or e-cigarettes.
- Tobacco Product Use: Student is found to be smoking a cigarette, cigar, e-cigarette, or to have been chewing smokeless tobacco (“chew” or “dip”).
- Trespassing: Students are not permitted in any school building, other than the one they regularly attend, without permission from the administrator in charge of the building. Students are also not permitted to attend classes to which they are not assigned without the express permission of the teacher. They may not attend athletic practices or other extracurricular events unless they are a member of the activity or have been given permission by the coach or advisor.
- Truant From School: Truancy is any intentional, unauthorized or illegal absence from school. That is, a parent/guardian does not know of the absence and/or does not provide a legal excuse for the absence from school.
- Unprepared for Class: Students are unprepared for class when they arrive without the necessary materials.
- Unsafe Bus Behavior: Unsafe bus behavior includes standing or moving while the bus is in motion, throwing objects, engaging in behavior that presents a distraction to the bus driver.
- Untruthful Behavior: Untruthful behavior includes lying, forgery, deception, or false reporting. It may include forging a note from a parent, doctor, or teacher or pretending to be someone’s parent over the phone.
- Used Cell Phone: Student uses his/her cell phone during the school day without permission or in a location in the school building where use is forbidden.
- Used Electronic Device: Student uses his/her electronic device during the school day without permission or in a location in the school building where use is forbidden.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Bomb Threat: A telephoned, written or electronic message that a bomb, explosive, chemical or biological weapon has been or will be placed on school property.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – False Alarm: Causing a fire alarm or other disaster alarm to be activated knowing there is no danger, or through false reporting of a fire or disaster.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Homicide: Any intentional violent conduct which results in the death of another person, with or without a weapon.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Material Incidents of Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying: A single verified incident or a series of related verified incidents where a student is subjected to harassment, bullying, and/or discrimination by a student and/or employee on school property or at a school function. In addition, such terms shall include a verified incident or series of related incidents of harassment or bullying that occur off school property, if that behavior interferes with, or can reasonably be expected to substantially disrupt the educational process in the school or a school function. Such conduct shall include, but is not limited to, threats, intimidation or abuse based on a person’s actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex.
- Defamation, which includes making a false or unprivileged statements or representations that harm the reputation of the person or the identifiable group by demeaning them.
- Discrimination, which includes using race, color, creed, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, sex, gender (identity and expression), sexual orientation, weight or disability to deny rights, equitable treatment or access to facilities available to others.
- Harassment and Bullying: “Harassing behavior does not have to include intent to harm, be directed at a specific target, involve repeated incidents. Harassment creates a hostile environment when the conduct is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent so as to interfere with or limit a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by a school. Harassment based on race, color national origin, sex, or disability violates federal civil rights laws.”
- Intimidation, which includes engaging in actions or statements that put an individual in fear of bodily harm.
- Hazing, which includes any intentional or reckless act directed against another for the purpose of initiation into, affiliating with or maintaining membership in any school sponsored activity, organization, club or team.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Physical Injury: Physical injury means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain and includes (but is not limited to) black eyes, welts, abrasions, bruises, cuts not requiring stitches, swelling and headaches not related to a concussion. Serious physical injury means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement or protracted impairment of health or protracted loss of impairment of the function of any bodily organ and requires hospitalization or treatment in an emergency medical care facility outside of school, including but not limited to, a bullet wound, fractured or broken bones or teeth, concussions, cuts requiring stitches and any other injury involving risk of death or disfigurement.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Use, Possession or Sale of Alcohol: Illegally using, possessing, or being under the influence of alcohol on school property or at a school function, including having such substance on a person or in a locker, vehicle, or other personal space; illegally selling or distributing alcohol on school property or at a school function; finding alcohol on school property that is not in the possession of any person.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Use, Possession or Sale of Drugs: Illegally using, possessing, or being under the influence of a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property or at a school function, including having such substance on a person in a locker, vehicle, or other personal space; selling or distributing a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property; finding a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property that is not in the possession of any person; provided that nothing herein shall be construed to apply to the lawful administration of a prescription drug on school property.
- Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Sex Offenses: Forcible sex offenses. Sex offenses involving forcible compulsion and completed or attempted sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct, anal sexual conduct or aggravated sexual contact, with or without a weapon including but not limited to rape, sodomy; or resulting from forcibly touching or grabbing another student on a part of the body that is generally regarded as private, which includes, but is is not limited to buttocks, breasts, or genitalia.
Other sex offenses. Other non-consensual sex offenses involving sexual contact including, but not limited to, touching another student on a part of the body that is generally regarded as private, which includes, but is not limited to, the buttocks, breasts, and genitalia, removing another student’s clothing to reveal underwear or private body parts, or brushing or rubbing against another person in a sexual manner. Other sex offenses shall also include, but not be limited to conduct that may be consensual or involve a child who is incapable of consent by reason of disability or because he or she is under 17 years of age, provided that such term shall not include consensual sexual conduct involving only students, and/or non-students 18 years of age or under, unless at least one of the individuals participating in the conduct is at least four years older than the youngest individual participating in the conduct. - Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting (VADIR) – Weapons Possession: Possession of one or more weapons as defined below, except possession in a classroom or laboratory as part of an instructional program or in a school-related activity under the supervision of a teacher or other school personnel as authorized by school officials which are discovered either through routine security checks; or weapons possessed at a school function or on school property which are not discovered through a routine security check, including but not limited to, weapons found in the possession of a student or within a locker.
- A firearm, including, but not limited to, a rifle, shotgun, pistol, handgun, silencer, electronic dart gun, stun gun, machine gun, air gun, spring gun, BB gun, or paintball gun
- A switchblade knife, gravity knife, pilum ballistic knife, cane sword, dagger, stiletto, dirk, razor, box cutter, metal knife, utility knife, or any other dangerous knife
- A billy club, blackjack, bludgeon, chukka stick, or metal knuckles
- A sandbag or sand club
- A slingshot or slungshot
- A martial arts instrument, including but not limited to, a kung fu star, a ninja star, nunchucks, or shuriken
- An explosive, including but not limited to, a firecracker or other fireworks
- A deadly or dangerous chemical, including but not limited to, a strong acid or base, mace or pepper spray
- An imitation gun
- Loaded or black cartridges or other ammunition
- Any other deadly or dangerous weapon
- Vandalism: Vandalism is any action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.
- Violation of Acceptable Use Policy
- Using the network for commercial activity, including advertising.
- Infringing on any copyrights or other intellectual property rights, including copying, installing, receiving, transmitting or making available any copyrighted software on the district computer network.
- Using the network to receive, transmit or make available to others obscene, offensive, or sexually explicit material.
- Using the network to receive, transmit or make available to others messages that are racist, sexist, abusive or harassing to others.
- Using another user’s account or password.
- Attempting to read, delete, copy or modify the electronic mail (e-mail) of other system users and deliberately interfering with the ability of other system users to send and/or receive e-mail.
- Forging or attempting to forge e-mail messages.
- Engaging in vandalism. Vandalism is defined as any malicious attempt to harm or destroy district equipment or materials, data of another user of the district’s network or of any of the entities or other networks that are connected to the Internet. This includes, but is not limited to, creating and/or placing a computer virus on the network.
- Using the network to send anonymous messages or files.
- Using the network to receive, transmit or make available to others a message that is inconsistent with the district’s Code of Conduct.
- Intentionally disrupting network traffic or crashing the network and connected systems.
- Installing personal software or using personal disks on the district’s computers and/or network without the permission of the appropriate district official or employee.
- Using district computing resources for commercial or financial gain or fraud.
- Stealing data, equipment or intellectual property.
- Gaining or seeking to gain unauthorized access to any files, resources, or computer or phone systems, or vandalize the data of another user.
- Changing or exceeding resource quotas as set by the district without the permission of the appropriate district official or employee.
- Using the network while access privileges are suspended or revoked.
- Using the network in a fashion inconsistent with directions from teachers and other staff and generally accepted network etiquette.
- Violation of Dress Code
A student’s dress, grooming and appearance, including hairstyle/color, jewelry, makeup, and nails, shall:- Be safe, appropriate and not disrupt or interfere with the educational process.
- Recognize that extremely brief garments such as tube tops, net tops, halter tops, spaghetti straps, plunging necklines (front and/or back) and see-through garments are not appropriate.
- Ensure that underwear is completely covered with outer clothing.
- Include footwear at all times. Footwear that is a safety hazard will not be allowed.
- Not include the wearing of hats in the classroom except for a medical or religious purpose.
Note: Bandanas do not meet the general definition of a hat and therefore would not be included under this prohibition. - Not include items that are vulgar, obscene, libelous, or denigrate others on account of race, color, national origin, creed, religion, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability or predisposing genetic characteristic.
- Not promote and/or endorse the use of alcohol, tobacco or illegal drugs and/or encourage other illegal or violent activities.
District Office
Superintendent: Jerry Griffin
Phone: (315) 265-2000 x 36733
District Clerk: Davida M. Martin
Phone: (315) 265-2000 x 36733
Fax: (315) 265-2048