Rule 4: Abuse, Threats, Intimidation, Assault. or Battery on a School Employee

Oral threat/verbal assault (oral speech that creates, or is intended to create, a fear of physical harm)

III, IV or V

Written threat;

III, IV or V

Rude and/or disrespectful conduct including but not limited to symbolic gestures and insults;

III, IV or V

Cyberbullying. Bullying (as defined by state law and in Rule 5) through any electronic communication, whether or not such electronic act originated on school property, off school property, with school equipment, or with non-school equipment, that: (1) is directed specifically at school personnel; (2) is maliciously intended for the purpose of threatening the safety of those specified or substantially disrupting the orderly operation of the school; and (3) creates a reasonable fear of harm to the school personnel(s)' person or property or has a high likelihood of succeeding in that purpose.

III, IV or V

Use of profanity;

III

Ethnic, racial, sexual, religious, or disability slur;

III

Harassment - Repeated words (verbal or written), conduct, or action that annoys, alarms, or causes distress and serves no legitimate purpose;

IV or V

Any expression (oral, written, or gesture) which has the effect of undermining the authority of the school employee or distracting staff and/or students from the learning environment, including writings of a threatening or provoking nature;

III

Terroristic threats (threatening to commit any crime of violence, release any hazardous substance, or to burn or damage property with the purpose of terrorizing another, with the purpose of causing the evacuation of a building, with the purpose of causing serious public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing terror, the evacuation of a building, or serious public inconvenience);

V

X

Posturing to inflict physical harm. Any action or gesture directed toward a school employee that places the school employee in reasonable fear of immediate physical harm;

IV or V

Other: (list)

I, II or III

Behavior that unintentionally caused physical injury to employee;

III

Intentional physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature to employee;

V

X

Aggravated battery (maliciously causing bodily harm to another by depriving them of a member of their body, or by rendering a member of their body useless, or by seriously disfiguring their body or a member thereof); [Rule may only be charged with consultation of Office of Student Discipline]

V

XX

Homicide/murder; [Rule may only be charged w/consultation of Office of Student Discipline]

V

XX

Kidnapping (seizure, transportation, and/or detention of a person against their will); [Rule may only be charged with consultation of Office of Student Discipline]

V

XX

Voluntary manslaughter; [Rule may only be charged with consultation of Office of Student Discipline]

V

XX

Enter without permission the private property of a school employee and/or deface/damage/vandalize such property;

III, IV or V

Intentional physical contact that caused physical harm to an employee;

V

XX

Violence against a teacher or teachers;

IV or V

X

Other: (list)

I, II or III