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Definitions

1. Bullying means unreasonable and inappropriate willful behavior that intimidates, offends, degrades, insults, and/or humiliates an individual.
2. Dismissal means dismissing a student from school for one school day or less.
3. Drug paraphernalia means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are knowingly or intentionally used primarily in: manufacturing a controlled substance; injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance; testing the strength, effectiveness, or purity of a controlled substance; or enhancing the effect of a controlled substance.
4. Exclusion means an action taken by a school board to prevent enrollment or re-enrollment of a student for a period which shall not extend beyond the school year.
5. Expulsion means a legal act taken by the school board to prohibit an enrolled student from further attendance up to 12 months from the date the student is expelled.
6. Gang means any ongoing organization, association or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, having as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more criminal acts, which has an identifiable name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in a pattern of gang activity. Pattern of gang activity means the commission, attempt to commit, conspiring to commit, or solicitation of two or more criminal acts, provided the criminal acts were committed on separate dates or by two or more persons who are members of or belong to the same gang.
7. Gang-like activity means any conduct engaged in by a student on behalf of any gang, to perpetuate the existence of any gang, to affect the common purpose and design of any gang and/or to represent a gang affiliation, loyalty or membership in any way while on a school location. These activities include recruiting students for membership in any gang and threatening or intimidating other students or employees to commit acts or omissions against his/her will in furtherance of the common purpose and design of any gang.
8. Hazing means committing an act against a student or coercing a student into committing an act that creates risk of personal harm in order to be initiated or affiliated with any student organization or activity that may or may not be officially recognized by the school. Hazing is any activity that risks or affects mental or physical health, including physical brutality such as whipping or beating; activities such as sleep deprivation or weather exposure; consumption of alcohol, drugs, tobacco or other substance; intimidation or threats of ostracism, mental stress, embarrassment, shame, humiliation; or any illegal activity.
9. Removal means any action taken by a teacher, principal or other school district employee to prohibit a pupil from attending class for a period of time not to exceed five class or activity periods. A student may be removed from class for violating the district's discipline policy or for willful conduct that significantly disrupts the rights of others to an education, including conduct that interferes with a teachers ability to teach or communicate effectively with students in a class or with the ability of other students to learn, or that endangers surrounding persons, including school district employees, the student or other students, or the property of the school.
10. School property includes a school building, school grounds, school activities or trips, bus stops, school buses or school vehicles, school-contracted vehicles, the areas of entrance or departure from school premises or events, and all school related functions.
11. School personnel means any person employed or under the direction/assignment of school personnel and who is acting within the scope of his/her assignment.
12. Scuffling means physical contact as a result of struggling at close quarters with disorder and confusion, that is not defined as assault or fighting.
13. Support services means Deans, Counselors, Nurse, School Social Worker, Gifted/Talented Coordinator, Psychologist, Chemical Health Specialist, Police Liaison Officer, Student Support Team (SST), etc.
14. Suspension means an action by the school administration, under rules stated by the school board, prohibiting a pupil from attending school for a period of no more that 10 school days.
15. Vehicle means an automobile, snowmobile, bicycle, unicycle, skateboard (motorized or non-motorized), scooter (motorized or non-motorized), moped, motorcycle, roller skates, in-line skates, or any other motorized or non-motorized equipment that is ridden or driven.