Professional Documents
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actions. School systems are encouraged to develop or refine their own consequences and
remedial actions consistent with the policies and procedures of their local boards of education
(Education, 2009). They say that the consequences are in no particular order. Does this list of
consequences look like it is in any particular order? I am instructed to follow discipline
procedures in my school. There are specific procedures, or steps, as a teacher, you should do
before involving the administration in any issue involving a student. This is mandatory. So, why
would the school system say that these consequences are in no particular order when they clearly
are in a particular order? It looks like you can threaten somebody 17 times before being expelled
from school. In fact, you can tell somebody you want to chop their ears off 4 times before you
get a detention. Even after 18 times of telling somebody you are going to climb into their room at
night through the window and stab their feet while their sleeping you are not charged with a state
crime.
1. Time out
2. Loss of a privilege
3. Verbal reprimand
4. Parental notification
5. Detention
6. Reassignment of seats in class, cafeteria, or bus
7. Reassignment of classes
8. Reassignment to another mode of transportation
9. Reassignment to another school
10. Completion of letter of acknowledgement of action, with apology, to victim
11. (after review by staff and not in a case of sexual harassment or intimidation)
12. Reparation to victim in the form of payment for or repair of damage to possession
13. In-school suspension
14. Out-of-school suspension
15. Extended suspension
16. Transfer to an appropriate alternative program
17. Referral to law enforcement
18. Expulsion
Lets look at what remedial actions the Maryland school system provides for the bully and the
victim(s). It doesnt appear as though the police are involved in any of these remedial actions.
However, the school system will tell the bully why the thing he/she is doing is very bad. And
the school system will pay for you to get help. If after 8 times of the school system trying to tell
you to stop, the school system will then get serious and make you clean up trash or do some
other type of community service to really teach the bully.
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5.
Parent/Student Conference
Counseling with school counselor or school psychologist
Education about the effects of bullying, harassment, or intimidation
Behavioral contract
Positive behavioral supports e.g. functional behavioral assessment; behavioral
intervention plan; remediation of problem behaviors that takes into account the nature of
the offense, the developmental level of the student, and the students behavioral history
6. Referral to an external agency
If the bill does make it through Congress, most of the experts were uncertain it would hold up in
court.
"Not only is Sanchez's bill unconstitutional," UCLA Law professor Eugene Volokh said, "but
with our existing laws, criminal harassment (as opposed to sexual) is not a well defined term.
Definitions vary from state to state, but generally it's threatening, persistent communication.
There are no anti-mind-game-harassment laws out there." (Kotler, 2009)