2005-2006

Student/Parent

Handbook
EE. Harassment
Sexual Harassment:
A. Verbal:
B. Nonverbal:
Physical Contact:
Gender/Ethnic/Religious/Disability/Height/ Weight Harassment:
A. Verbal
1. Nonverbal
2. Physical
FF. Hazing
Anti-Hazing Policy
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EE. Harassment
The school believes that every individual deserves to come to school without fear of demeaning remarks or actions. The harassment of other students, members of staff, or any other individuals is not permitted. This includes any speech or action that creates a hostile, intimidating, or offensive learning environment.

Conduct constituting harassment may take different forms, including but no limited to the following:
Sexual Harassment:
A. Verbal:
The making of written or oral sexual innuendoes, suggestive comments, jokes of a sexual nature, sexual propositions, or threats to or by a fellow student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or third parties (visiting speaker, athletic team member, volunteer, parent, etc.)
B. Nonverbal:
Causing the placement of sexually suggestive objects, pictures, or graphic commentaries in the school environment or the making of sexually suggestive or insulting gestures, sounds, leering, whistling, and the like to or by a fellow student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or third parties.
Physical Contact:
Threatening or causing unwanted touching, contact, or attempts at same, including patting, pinching, brushing the body, or coerced sexual activity, with or by a fellow student, staff member, other person associated with the District, or third parties.
Gender/Ethnic/Religious/Disability/Height/ Weight Harassment:
A. Verbal
Written or oral innuendoes, comments, jokes, insults, threats, or disparaging remarks concerning a person’s gender, national origin, religious beliefs, etc. toward or by a fellow student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or third parties.

Conducting a “campaign of silence” toward or by a fellow student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or third parties by refusing to have any form of social interaction with the person.
1. Nonverbal
Placing objects, pictures, or graphic commentaries in the school environment or making insulting or threatening gestures toward or by a fellow student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or third parties.
2. Physical
Any intimidating or disparaging action such as hitting, biting, pushing, shoving, hissing, or spitting on or by fellow student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or third parties.

Any student who believes that s/he is the victim of any of the above actions or has observed such actions taken by another student, staff member, or other person associated with the District, or by third parties should make contact with the guidance counselor, dean of students, principal, or the student’s homeroom teacher.

The student may make contact either by a written report or by telephone or personal visit. During this contact, the reporting student should provide the name of the person(s) whom s/he believes to be responsible for the harassment and the nature of the harassing incident(s). A written summary of each such report will be prepared promptly and a copy forwarded to the principal.

Each report shall be investigated in a timely and confidential manner. While a charge is under investigation, no information will be released to anyone who is not involved with the investigation, except as may be required by law or in the context of a legal or administrative proceeding. No one involved is to discuss the subject outside of the investigation.

If an investigation reveals that any harassment complaint is valid, then appropriate remedial and/or disciplinary action will be taken promptly to prevent the continuance of the harassment or its recurrence.

Given the nature of harassing behavior, the school recognizes that false accusations can have serious effects on innocent individuals. Therefore, all students are expected to act responsibly, honestly, and with the utmost candor whenever they present harassment allegations or charges.

Some forms of sexual harassment of a student by another student may be considered a form of child abuse that will require that the student-abuser be reported to the proper authorities.

Under no circumstances will the school tolerate threats or retaliation against anyone who raises or files a harassment complaint.
FF. Hazing
Hazing by any individual, school group, club, or team is not permitted. This includes any form of initiation that causes or creates a risk of causing mental or physical harm, no matter how willing the participant may be. Hazing activities are prohibited at any time in school facilities, on school property, and/or off school property but connected to activities or incidents that have occurred on school property.
Anti-Hazing Policy
It is the policy of the Ottawa-Glandorf Board of Education and School District that hazing activities of any type are inconsistent with the educational process and shall be prohibited at all times. No administrator, faculty member, or other employee of the school district shall encourage, permit, condone, or tolerate any hazing activities. No student, including leaders of student organizations, shall plan, encourage, or engage in any hazing.

Hazing is defined as doing any act or coercing another, including the victim, to do any act of initiation to any student or other organization that causes or creates substantial risk of causing mental or physical harm to any person. Permission, consent, or assumption of risk by an individual subject to hazing does not lessen the prohibition contained in this policy.
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