By Another Means Necessary: Alternatives in School Discipline
FDR Would Be Proud: Educational Acronyms
Quit Hassling Me
Bullish on Preventing Bullying
100
This population of students is most likely to be suspended.
What are African American students?
100
This should relate to behavioral IEP goals and be designed to teach a functionally equivalent replacement.
What is a behavior plan?
100
BSP
What is Behavior Support Plan?
100
These types of damages are available if violations of EC 220, 42 USC 1983, Section 504, Title IX or the ADA are found.
What are money damages?
100
Bullying via electronic device is also called this.
What is cyber-bullying?
200
This population of students is least likely to be suspended.
What are Caucasian students?
200
This makes it far more likely students will have contact with the juvenile justice system.
What are school exclusions?
200
MDR
What is Manifestation Determination Review?
200
If bullying incidents rise to the level of harassment based on a federally protected status, e.g., race, disability, these types of laws may be implicated.
What are federal anti-discrimination laws (Section 504, ADA, etc.)?
200
These types of students are disproportionately subjected to bullying.
What are students with disabilities?
300
This charge is grounds for the most suspensions statewide.
What is Willful Defiance?
300
School/parent/ pupil conferences and enrollment in prosocial behavior or anger management programs are interventions that have been added to the Ed. Code in effort to curb this disciplinary measure.
What are out of school suspensions?
300
OCR
What is Office of Civil Rights?
300
Sexual harassment will be found if this type of student would consider the harassing conduct severe or pervasive enough to have a negative impact on academic performance.
What is a reasonable person of the same gender as the victim?
300
A student who has been a victim of bullying in his/her school of residence has priority consideration for this.
What is inter-district transfer?
400
School administrators may do this (with exceptions) instead of recommending expulsion.
What is alternative means of correction?
400
his strategy includes restorative conversations between the perpetrator and victim.
What is Restorative Justice?
400
OOSS
What is "out of school suspension"?
400
In M.L. v. Federal Way School District, Ninth Circuit held that a teacher's deliberate indifference to severe teasing of a special education student could lead to this.
What is denial of FAPE?
400
Implementing a streamlined investigation process for claims of bullying / harassment is part of a successful one of these.
What is an action plan?
500
This Education Code section addresses student suspension and expulsion in California.
What is Education Code section 48900 et. seq.?
500
This nearly quadruples the likelihood of a student not finishing high school.
What is a Juvenile Court appearance?
500
CASEL
What is Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning?
500
In Donovan v. Poway USD, district was found to have had "actual knowledge" of harassment and acted with "deliberate indifference" in responding to this type of harassment. What is sexual-orientation harassment?
What is sexual-orientation harassment?
500
In addition to disciplining the bully, a bullying incident may necessitate investigation into this larger impact on the school culture.