Hawthorne School Parent-Student Handbook 2016-2017
interactions with peers and adults directed toward someone including swearing, name-calling, and putdowns, making fun of or negatively talking about a person or their family, or gestures in an inappropriate way.
Fighting / physical aggression
Physical assault on school personnel Sexual Misconduct
Actions involving serious physical contact where an injury may occur( i. e. hitting, pushing, shoving, tripping, kicking, hair pulling and other physical acts). Intentional aggressive physical actions directed at school personnel.
Inappropriate actions or behaviors by touching or referring to, verbally or in writing, one‘ s own private body parts or those of another person. Included in sexual misconduct are actions involving touching of a sexual nature, with or without consent of the other party. Bullying, Harassment, and Any gesture or written, verbal or physical act that is reasonably Intimidation perceived as being motivated either by any actual or perceived characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or a mental, physical, or sensory handicap, or by any other distinguishing characteristic, that takes place on school property, at any schoolsponsored function or on a school bus and that: 1. a reasonable person would know, under the circumstances, will have the effect of harming a student or damaging the student‘ s property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to his or her person or damage to his / her property; 2. has the effect of insulating or demeaning any student or group of students in such a way as to cause substantial disruption in, or substantial interference with, the orderly operation of the school.
Property damage
Students must not cause damage, break or destroy school property or anyone‘ s personal belongings. Examples are writing in school textbooks, school property; damaging desks or computer equipment; intentionally clogging the plumbing system, etc.
Theft
Student is in the possession of, having possessed, or being responsible for removing someone else‘ s property.
Forgery
Students must not trick, or cause someone to be tricked by not telling the truth. Students must not sign or give a name other than their own. The forging of late notes or excuses are also examples. Use / possession of tobacco Student is in possession of or caught using tobacco products. Use / possession of drugs / alcohol
Students must not use, be under the influence of or buy or sell alcohol or illegal drugs to school or school activities. This also includes any substance made to look like, or represented to be illegal drugs or alcohol and any related paraphernalia.
Bomb threat / false alarm Student delivers message( electronically, verbally, written or gestural) or orchestrates the delivery of a message of possible explosive materials being on school grounds, near school grounds, and or pending explosions; tampering with, pulling or orchestrating the pulling of an unwarranted fire alarm.
Possession of a dangerous weapon
Students must not handle, transmit, or use as a dangerous weapon,( real or look alike), an instrument capable of harming or creating the
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