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hearing must be held. Appeals to the Superintendent, School Board, and to the civil courtsmay follow in sequence. Indiana Codes 20-8.1-5.1-0.5 through 20-8.1-5.1-24, as indicated inthe most current Indiana School Laws and Rules Handbook, will be used as a guide for dueprocess procedures.C. GROUNDS FOR SUSPENSION AND EXPULSIONThe grounds for suspension or expulsion listed below apply when a student is:a. On school grounds immediately before, during, and immediately after schoolhours and at any other time when the school is being used by a schoolgroup;b. Off school grounds at a school activity, function, or event;c. Traveling to or from school or a school activity, function, or event; ord. attending summer school.D. STUDENT MISCONDUCT AND/OR SUBSTANTIAL DISOBEDIENCEGrounds for suspension or expulsion are student misconduct and/or substantial disobedience.Examples of student misconduct and/or substantial disobedience for which a student may besuspended or expelled include, but are not limited to:1. Using violence, force, noise, coercion, threat, intimidation, fear, passive resistance, or othercomparable conduct constituting an interference with school purposes, or urging otherstudents to engage in such conduct. The following enumeration is only illustrative and notlimited to the type of conduct prohibited by this rule:a. Occupying any school building, school grounds, or part thereof with intent to depriveothers of its use.b. Blocking the entrance or exits of any school building or corridor or room thereinwith intent to deprive others of lawful access to or from, or use of the building,corridor, or room.c. Setting fire to or damaging any school building or property.d. Prevention of or attempting to prevent by physical act the convening or continuedfunctioning of any school or education function, or of any meeting or assembly onschool property.e. Continuously and intentionally making noise or acting in any manner so as to interfereseriously with the ability of any teacher or any of the other school personnel toconduct or participate in an education function.2. Causing or attempting to cause damage to school property, stealing, orattempting to steal school property.3. Causing or attempting to cause damage to private property, stealing, orattempting to steal private property.4. Intentionally causing or attempting to cause physical injury orintentionally behaving in such a way as could reasonably cause physicalinjury to any person. Self-defense or reasonable action undertaken onthe reasonable belief that it was necessary to protect some other persondoes not, however, constitute a violation of this provision.5. Harassing or bullying a person in any form: verbal, non-verbal, emotional, or physical,including but not limited to:a. threatening, stated or implied, any person for the purpose of, or with theintent of, obtaining money or anything of value from the person;b. intimidating any person, physically or psychologically (emotional);c. sexual harassment; including unwelcome sexual advances or any form ofimproper physical or verbal conduct of a sexual nature;d. harassment or “hate language” based on gender, race, ethnicity,16