Parent/Student Handbook - PA Leadership Charter School

LEVEL II OFFENSES
VIII. Repeated School Violations
A student shall not continue to break any of Rules 1 through 7. Nor may a student
repeatedly fail to follow directions given by any school staff member while the student
is under school supervision. A student who continues to violate any of these rules after
the school staff has attempted reasonable interventions to address the student's
behaviors is subject to suspension or expulsion provided for Level II offenses.
IX. Harassment
A. No student shall engage in verbal or physical activity in a live or online setting
which he/she should reasonably expect to have the effect of harassing, threatening
the safety, or maliciously damaging the reputation of any student or staff member.
B. An aggravated incident is one which reasonably places a victim in fear for his/her
safety or well being if the offender remains in the school.
C. Harassment or threats, for the purpose of this rule, includes a course of conduct or
a single aggravated incident. Harassment includes, among other things:
1. Unwelcome sexual advances; requests for sexual relations; sexual comments;
sexually-oriented gestures, sounds, remarks, or comments about a student,
staff member, or visitor's sexuality or sexual experience;
2. Offensive expressions concerning a person's race, sex, religion, disability, or
national origin;
3. Efforts to intimidate, bully, or ridicule (See Rules 10 and 14 for offenses
involving other serious forms of sexual or physical misconduct);
4. Threats include any attempt, by physical menace or verbal intimidation or
taunt, to put a member of the school community in fear of injury, pain, or
social ridicule. The intentional posting on networks of the addresses or
telephone numbers of fellow students or other members of the school
community is a violation of this rule;
5. This rule includes spoken and written messages including any bulletin board,
flyer or notice, computer networks or displayed on a student's personal
belongings, and
6. Threats to bomb, kill, injure, or use dangerous or deadly weapons will be
treated as an aggravated offense under Rule 14.
X. Indecent Assault or Indecent Exposure
A. All students must keep their hands and bodies to themselves at all times. No
student may touch the sexual parts of another person with any parts of his/her own
body or an object, or encourage another person to touch him/her in sexual part of
the body.
B. No student may show the sexual parts of his/her body in a live or online setting to
other persons in a way that would offend them or in an effort to excite them. (See
Rule 14 for forcible or voluntary sexual acts.)
PALCS Parent and Student Handbook 2012-2013
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