|
Law |
Definition |
Minimum |
Maximum | |
| Assault | Physical threat or violence to others. | Short term
suspension.
1-10 days -- 5 page paper subject to be determined. |
Referral to prosecutor, charges filed, arrested. | Long term suspension 11 or more days. |
| Extortion or Coercion | Obtaining money or property by violence or threat of violence or forcing a person to do something against his /her will by threat or threat of force. | Short term
suspension
1-10 days |
Referral to prosecutor, charges filed, arrested. | Long term suspension 11 or more days. |
| Sale, use, or possession of alcohol/illegal drugs/or chemicals | This includes the possession of drug paraphernalia. | Two day short term suspension and agreement to drug/alcohol intervention/assessment. | Long term
suspension.
Referral to prosecutor, charges filed. |
Expulsion |
| Theft | Stealing property of school or of another person or aiding or abetting such stealing. | Short term
suspension.
1-10 days |
Referral to prosecutor, charges filed, arrested. | Long term
suspension.
11 or more days. |
| Trespass by students/adults | Being in an unauthorized place, school jurisdiction and/or refusing to leave when ordered to do so. | Write/File criminal trespass. | Referral to prosecutor, charges filed. | Referral to police,
arrest.
|
| Unauthorized use/possession of any object that is or reasonably can be considered or viewed as a firearm, air gun, dangerous weapon, or explosive | The bringing on campus or within 1000 feet of campus any object considered to be dangerous. The handling of a dangerous weapon regardless of the primary possessor is grounds for disciplinary action. | Short term
suspension
1-10 days if not a firearm or if object is not used to threaten or intimidate. |
Referral to prosecutor, charges filed. | Mandatory one
year expulsion
from school for
firearm possession
|
| Use and or possession of tobacco or tobacco products by persons under 18 prohibited | Use and or possession of tobacco or tobacco products in or on all property owned or leased by the school district and at all school sponsored events, including surrounding residential areas | 2 days suspension and 4 Drug/Alcohol/tobacco intervention classes | Police Citation | Long term
suspension
|
| Sale or giving away of tobacco/tobacco products | Any person who sells or gives, or permits to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years. | Short Term
Suspension
Drug/Alcohol classes |
Police Referral | Long term suspension |
| Vandalism, arson, malicious destruction of school property | Graffiti, marring of benches, defacing school property, lighting of fires any where on school property. | Short term
suspension
1-10 days Restitution |
Referral to prosecutor, charges filed/arrest. | Long term
suspension
11 days or more |
| Harassment | Intimidating another person in a way that is related to a person's race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or physically injury by words or conduct that places that person in fear of harm to his/her person or property or causes disruptive conduct. | Short term
suspension
1-10 days
Five page paper |
School district formal/informal charges, referral to prosecutor. Prosecutor charges filed/arrest. | Long term
suspension
11 days or more |
| Disruptive Conduct | Such conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual's work or educational performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working or educational environment. | Short term
suspension
1-10 days
In school
suspension
Five page paper |
School district formal/informal charges, referral to prosecutor. Prosecutor charges filed/arrest. | Long term
suspension
11 days or more |
| Verbal/Physical Threats to student or staff | Any statements made verbally or in writing that causes any person to be afraid. | Emergency expulsion | Referral to Prosecutor, charges filed | Long term
suspension
Expulsion |
|
Truancy |
Absent without parent and/or school knowledge. Leaving campus without checking out. | Saturday
School
In School Suspension |
Referral to juvenile court via the Becca petition. Court ordered attendance 7 days juvenile stay if found in contempt. | |
| Tardy | Not arriving to class on time. | 3 Tardies - 1 Saturday School | Short term suspension | Long term suspension |
| Lack of Satisfactory progress | Progress in school consistent with reasonable expectations for each student in relation to his/her ability/aptitudes. | Formal/informal teacher counselor assessment and/or assistant principal. | Repetition of grade level - Can only do one grade 2 times. | Continued lack of success will result in a new school placement. |
| Forgery/
Misrepresentation |
Impersonating parent on phone, signing for parent, student personnel, medical personnel violation of GSL | Saturday school, parent contact denial of credit if assignment. | 3 day
suspension
Charges filed with prosecutor. |
Long term suspension |
| Failure to correctly identify oneself for school official or produce student ID | A student on school property or at a school sponsored event shall correctly identify him/herself to any faculty or other school person by producing SPHS picture ID. | Parent conference to return to school. | Referral to prosecutor. | Long term suspension |
| Open defiance/disrespect to authority | Failure to act as instructed by any staff member. | Removal from
school
pending
parent
conference.
Short term suspension |
Charges filed with prosecutor. | Long term
suspension
Expulsion |
| Endangering the safety of self and others | Any action that creates an unsafe condition which jeopardizes the well-being of self or others on the way to or from school at school or at a school - sponsored event. | Suspension pending parent conference | Referral to prosecutor, charges filed, arrest | Expulsion from school |
| Missing Saturday School | Not doing Saturday detention time | In School Suspension | Long term suspension | |
| Cheating | Knowingly using the work of others to represent one's own. Aid and abetting of cheating by others. | Parent conference. Lack of credit for assignment. | Long term suspension | |
| Fighting | Pushing, shoving, hitting or any other bodily contact. Fighting includes defending yourself. | 5 day
suspension
Five page paper on conflict resolution. |
Peer mediation
Assault charges filed with prosecutor. |
Emergency
expulsion
Long term suspension |
| Being a conduit to a fight | Any person that delivers messages back and forth to result in a physical altercation. | 3 day
suspension
Five page paper on conflict resolution. |
Peer
mediation.
Charges filed with prosecutor. |
Emergency
expulsion
Long term suspension |
| Defacing/Altering computers or accessing unauthorized sites/programs | Damaging, destroying any part of a computer, altering any program, or accessing unauthorized sites/programs | Removal from class with an "F". Removal from technology | Restitution for
damage.
Charges filed with prosecutor. |
Long term suspension |
| Gang/drug/alcohol
Attire/Association |
Any clothing including hats and belt buckles that is associated with a gang. Any hand signs and/or gang writing on notebooks, books, etc. any posing and or posturing. Anything advertising drugs/alcohol. | Confiscation of clothing and/or written material. Suspension pending parent conference. | Referral to prosecutor. | Expulsion |
| Verbal/physical threats to student or staff | Gestures, words or actions that intimidate or cause fear | Short term suspension | Referral to prosecutor | Expulsion |
| Bullying | Physical, verbal, Social or emotional intimidation that occurs at any time. | Short term Suspension | Referral to prosecutor | Expulsion |