Walk It Through: The Suspension Letter
Bullying reported the same day, investigated within 10 school days, and a suspension reported to the superintendent.
A teacher sees a student shoving and mocking a classmate in the hallway.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One hallway and one suspension. Reinstatement at the board's meetings, a district's own code of conduct, anonymous and online reports, and federal civil rights law on harassment are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Closed sessionA portion of a meeting from which the public may be excluded, limited to the matters the section lists, such as collective bargaining, pending or anticipated litigation, and personnel matters about a specific officer or employee.
- HarassmentWith purpose to harass, making communications anonymously, at extremely inconvenient hours, in offensively coarse language or in another way likely to cause annoyance or alarm, or offensive touching or threatening it. A petty disorderly persons offense.
- Good causeOne of the grounds the statute lists, without which the Superior Court may not remove a residential tenant: unpaid rent, disorderly conduct or broken rules continued after written notice to cease, damage to the premises, habitual late rent, and others.
- Simple assaultAttempting to cause, or purposely, knowingly or recklessly causing, bodily injury; negligently causing bodily injury with a deadly weapon; or trying by physical menace to put someone in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.