Identifying Majors and Minors Major & Minor Offenses Defined: Bullying/ Harassment
MINOR
Always a MAJOR offense
MAJOR
Student delivers disrespectful messages to another person that includes threats or intimidation, obscene gestures, pictures, or written notes. * Disrespectful messages include negative comments based on race, religion, gender, age, and/or national origin; sustained or intense verbal attacks based on ethnic origin, disabilities, or other personal matters.
MINOR
Student engages in non-serious, but inappropriate lying/cheating.
MAJOR
Student delivers message that is untrue and/or deliberately violates rules.
Defiance, Disrespect, Noncompliance
MINOR
Student engages in brief or low-intensity failure to respond to adult requests.
MAJOR
Student repeatedly engages in sustained (or high-intensity) failure to respond to adult requests (for verbal disrespect, see Inappropriate Language).
Disruption
MINOR
Student engages in low-intensity, but inappropriate disruption.
MAJOR
Student engages in sustained or high intensity disruption. Behavior causing an interruption in a class activity. Disruption includes sustained loud talk, yelling, or screaming; noise with materials; horseplay or roughhousing; and/or sustained out-of-seat behavior.
MINOR
Always a MAJOR offense
MAJOR
Student is involved in mutual participation in an incident involving physical violence.
MINOR
Student delivers low-intensity verbal messages/gestures that include swearing, name calling, or use of words in an inappropriate way.
MAJOR
Student delivers abusive, profane verbal messages/gestures that include swearing, name calling, or use of words in an inappropriate way and directed at others.
MINOR
Always a MAJOR offense.
MAJOR
MAJOR Student is in an area that is outside of school boundaries.
Lying/ Cheating
Fighting
Inappropriate Language
Out-of-Bounds
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