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6420 |
Disruption of School
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6420 |
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6420.1 |
Threat/False
Threat - No student shall make any threat through
written or verbal language,
sign, or act which conveys a serious expression of
intent to cause harm or
violence. Furthermore, no student shall make a false threat of
harm or violence, even in jest, which causes or is reasonably likely to cause
fear or a disruption to school activities. |
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6420.2 |
Hazing - Hazing is prohibited. No group or individual shall
require a student to wear abnormal dress, play abusive or ridiculous tricks on him/her, frighten,
scold, beat, harass, or subject him/her to personal indignity. The Board of
Education is required to expel any student convicted of hazing under NC
Criminal Statute §14-35. |
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6420.3 |
False Fire
Alarm - No student shall set off, attempt to set
off, or aid and abet anyone in giving a false fire alarm. No student shall interfere with or damage any part of
a fire alarm, fire detection, smoke detection, fire extinguishing system ,or emergency escape
system. |
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6420.4 |
Bomb Threat -No student shall make, aid, and/or abet in
making a bomb threat or hoax by making a false report that a device designed
to cause damage or destruction by explosion, blasting, or burning is located
on the school premises or at the site of school activities. No student shall with the intent to perpetrate a
hoax, conceal, place or display on school property or the site of school activities any device or
artifact so as to cause any person reasonably to believe the same to be a
bomb or other destructive device. Violation of this section shall
result in suspension from school for 365 days unless modified by the Board of
Education upon the Superintendent’s recommendation. |
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6420.5 |
Fire
Setting/Incendiary Material-
The possession
of any incendiary material (including but not limited to matches, lighters,
or lighter fluid) or the use
of any material reasonably likely to result in a fire on school property is
prohibited. |
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6420.6 |
Extortion- No student shall attempt to extort money,
personal property, or personal services. |
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6420.7 |
Disruptive Protest- No student on school property or on property adjacent thereto
shall engage in any protest, march, picket, sit-in, boycott,
walkout, or
other activity which has as its purpose the disruption of any lawful
function, mission, or process of the school, or in fact creates such a
disruption. |
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6420.8 |
School
Disturbance- No student
shall, by use of passive resistance, noise, threat, fear, intimidation,
coercion, force, violence, or any other form of conduct, cause the disruption
of any lawful function, mission, or process of the school. |
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6420.9 |
Property
Damage- No student shall
intentionally damage or attempt to damage or deface school property or private property. |
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6420.10 |
Aiding and
Abetting- No
student shall aid or abet another student in violating any rule in the Code
of Student Conduct. |
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6420.11 |
Acts of
Terror-
Violation of this section may result in suspension from school for up to 365
days. |
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A. |
No student shall make a report that he or she knows
or should know is false, that any device, substance or material designed to
cause harmful or life threatening illness or injury to another person, is
located on school property or at the site of a school activity. |
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B. |
No student shall, with intent to perpetrate a hoax,
conceal, place, disseminate or display on school property or at the site of a
school activity any device, machine, instrument, artifact, letter, package,
material, or substance, so as to cause a reasonable person to believe the
same to be a substance or material capable of causing harmful or
life-threatening illness or injury to another person. |
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C. |
No student shall threaten to commit an act of terror
on school property or at the site of a school activity that is designed to
cause, or is likely to cause, serious injury or death to another person, when
the threat is intended to cause, or actually causes, a significant disruption
to the instructional day or a school-sponsored activity. |
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D. |
No student shall make a report that he or she knows
is false, that an act of terror designed to cause, or likely to cause,
serious injury or death to another person on school property or at the site
of a school-sponsored activity is imminent, when that report is intended to
cause, or actually causes, a significant disruption to the instructional day
or a school-sponsored activity. |
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E. |
No student shall aid, abet, and/or conspire to
commit any of the acts described in section A, B, C, and D of this policy. |
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Legal Reference:
G.S. 14-35, G.S. 14-69.1, G.S. 14-69.2, G.S. 14-286, G.S. 14-288.4, Adopted: August 9, 1976 Revised: July 8, 1987 Revised: May 20, 1991 Revised: June 17, 1996 Revised: August 17, 1998 Revised: May 8, 2000 Revised: May 30, 2001 Revised: June 25, 2001 Revised: May 21, 2002 Revised: May 6, 2003 Revised: March 6, 2007 |