Laurelhurst Disciplinary Guidelines
Behaviors Chart

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LEVEL 1

• Pushing
• Spitting
• Kicking
• Hitting
• Gossiping/Spreading rumors about/telling secrets
• Embarrassing or making someone look foolish
• Mocking or mimicking
• Name calling
• Dirty looks
• Taunting
• Teasing about clothing and possessions
• Threatening to reveal personal information
• Graffiti
• Publicly challenging to do something
• Defacing property or clothing
• Playing a trick on someone with the intent to embarrass him/her in front of others

Any of the following consequences

• Making amends
• Class meeting on topic
• Loss of privileges
• Parent notified
• Inhouse suspension (Student assigned for part of all of the day to another classroom with work to do)

(Pattern of Level 1 offenses may result in consequences for Level 2 offenses and referral to intervention sessions)

LEVEL 2

• Defacing property
• Stealing
• Physical acts that are demeaning and humiliating, but not bodily harmful (lifting shirts, skirts or pulling pants down)
• Locking in a closed or confined space
• Racial/Ethnic slurs or taunting
• Setting up to take the blame
• Publicly humiliating (e.g., relaying personal information)
• Excluding from group
• Social rejection
• Teasing about a person’s physical appearance
• Intimidating telephone calls
• Taking possessions (e.g., lunch, clothing, toys)
• Extortion
• Sexual taunting or inappropriate touching

Parent contacted and any of the following consequences

• Loss of privileges (progressively more severe than level 1)
• Making amends
  • Repairing or cleaning act or replacing item (natural consequence)
  • Writing a report on the topic (e.g., race, theft, defacing property)
  • School or Community Service or monetary retribution.
• In-house suspension (Student assigned for part or all of the day to another classroom with work to complete)
• Referral to one-on-one or small group intervention sessions-
• Short-term suspension

(Pattern of Level 2 offenses may result in consequences for Level 3 offenses)

LEVEL 3

• Physical violence against others/Inflicting bodily harm
• Threatening with a weapon
• Maliciously excluding
• Manipulating social order to achieve rejection
• Malicious rumormongering
• Threatening with total isolation by peer group
• Verbal threats of aggression against property or possessions
• Verbal threats of violence or of inflicting bodily harm
• Threats of using coercion against family or friends
• Coercion-forcing someone to do something against his/her will

Required parent conference with teacher and principal and
any of the following consequences

• Student Behavior Plan
• Referral to one-on-one or small group intervention session
• In-house suspension (Student assigned all day to another classroom with work to complete)
• Short term suspension for one to ten days for a maximum of 15 days per year for grade K-4 students and 30 days per year for grade 5 students
• Long term suspension for grade 5 students only.
• Explusion from school or school district

Criminal behavior will be referred to law enforcement for further action.