In order to enhance the learning experience of each student, Brighton Adventist Academy is committed to providing an environment free from bullying and harassment. Bullying includes verbal abuse, inflicting physical harm, social alienation, intimidation, fighting, or hazing (willfully attacking, disturbing, tormenting, or force another student to do something against their will). Bullying is the act of targeting another person for repetitive negative actions. Bullying will create an imbalance of power such that the victim cannot defend himself/herself.
The school will treat allegations of harassment seriously. Students expressing such behaviors may be suspended from school. If the behavior continues or is of a nature deemed very serious, expulsion may become necessary.
Harassment occurs when an individual is subjected to treatment, or to a school environment, which is hostile, or intimidating because of the individual's age, race, creed, color, national origin, medical condition, physical disability, or gender. Harassment can occur any time during school or during school related activities. It includes, but is not limited to any or all of the following:
*Social Alienation: Spreading of rumors, racial slurs, or exclusion from group.
*Verbal Harassment: Derogatory comments, jokes, or threatening words spoken to another person.
*Physical Harassment: Unwanted physical touching, contact, assault, deliberate impeding or blocking movements, or any intimidating interference with normal work or movement.
*Sexual Harassment: Includes unwelcome staring, gestures, shoulder massages, touching of clothes, hair, or body, patting, pinching, hitting, wrestling, constant brushing against another's body, bodily lifting, invading a person's personal space, sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
Action: No retaliatory action will be taken against an individual who files a complaint. Any student whose conduct is considered to be in violation of this policy with face disciplinary action which may include suspension with possible expulsion.
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