General Disruptive Conduct and/or Defiance
Any behavior or conduct that disrupts or interferes with the operation of the public schools, including individual classes. This can also be behavior that leads a school authority to reasonably forecast that such an interruption or interference is likely to occur unless preventive action is taken. Refusing to comply with any reasonable demand or request by any school official or sponsor or lying to or intentionally misleading any school official at places and times where school personnel have jurisdiction is included in this definition. For example:
- Ditching (Should not result in removal from class)
- Disruption to Education Process
- Misuse of cell phones and other forms of technology
- Failure to provide school identification upon request
- Inappropriate display of affection
- Any consensual sexual act committed on campus
Note: It is the responsibility of the parent/legal guardian of the student to retrieve confiscated cell phones or other electronic devices according to the individual school’s procedures.
Not a Stand-Alone Long Term Infraction
Consequences/Disposition
Elementary
Pre-K to 3rd
- Utilize intervention strategies
- Do not exceed maximum consequences for 4th-5th Grade.
- General practice for PK-3 is a suspension of no more than 3 days for a single incident and no referral to hearing.
- Additional consequences allowed with Associate approval
4th-5th
- Utilize intervention strategies
- 1st Violation - Up to 1 day Suspension
- 2nd Violation - Up to 2 day Suspension
- 3rd Violation - Up to 3 days Suspension
Middle/High
- Utilize intervention strategies
- 1st Violation - Up to 1 day Suspension
- 2nd Violation - Up to 2 day Suspension
- 3rd Violation - Up to 3 days Suspension
Updated as of July 11, 2023