Prohibited Conduct
Prohibited Conduct:
A significant part of the District’s educational mission is to inculcate or instill the habits and manners of civility and to teach students the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior. In furtherance of this mission, students will be subject to disciplinary consequences if they engage in any of the following prohibited conduct while they are subject to the school’s jurisdiction as described in this Code of Conduct:
1. Scholastic dishonesty, which includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test or any other assignment, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work or any other assignment for which a grade is awarded, falsifying records or school passes
2. Conduct that can cause injury to person or property, which may include dating violence
3. Leaving classroom, school grounds, or school-sponsored events without permission
4. Using profanity, lewd or vulgar language, or obscene gestures
5. Scuffling or fighting or other inappropriate physical contact that does not meet the definition of simple assault
6. Stealing
7. Lying about the conduct of other students or making false accusations about District employees
8. Disobeying school rules about conduct on school buses
9. Failing to comply with lawful directives given by school personnel
10. Failing to comply with campus or District policies
11. Bullying, harassment, and making hit lists, which include the following offenses:
a. Committing extortion, coercion, or blackmail (obtaining money or another object of value from an unwilling person), or forcing an individual to act through the use of force or threat of force
b. Making ethnic, racial, or religious slurs or any other harassment based on race, color, national origin, religion, or disability
c. Verbal abuse or derogatory or offensive remarks addressed to others, which may include dating violence
d. Damaging or vandalizing property of other students
e. Conduct that constitutes sexual harassment or sexual abuse whether the conduct is by word,
gesture, or any other sexual conduct, including without limit, requests for sexual favors, which may include dating violence
12. Committing or assisting in a robbery, theft, or burglary
13. Any misbehavior that gives school officials reasonable cause to believe that the conduct will substantially disrupt the school program or incite violence
14. Damaging, defacing, tagging or vandalizing District property – including textbooks, locker,furniture, facilities and other equipment
15. Using or publicly displaying I-Pods, headsets, CD players, cassette players, electronic games or any personal games and/or electronic music devices
16. Using or publicly displaying a cellular telephone or other telecommunications device before the last bell at the end of the school day
17. Using or possessing ammunition, mace or pepper spray
18. Using or possessing a pellet gun, BB gun, air-powered rifle, toy gun, or any other instrument that may be perceived by a third party as a firearm
19. Using or possessing a taser, stun-gun, or similar device
20. Using or exhibiting school supplies (i.e., pencils, pens, scissors, etc.), or other items (i.e., razor, box cutter, chain, etc.) in a manner that threatens to inflict or actually inflicts bodily harm to another person or oneself
21. Using or possessing drug paraphernalia (roach clips, rolling papers, needles, baggies with residue, razor blades, pipes, etc.)
22. Using or possessing martial arts objects (i.e., shurikan [throwing stars], nunchakus [“nunchucks”], tonfa [wooden weapon], staff, baton [short stick], bolo [long cord with weights at end])
23. Using or possessing fireworks of any kind, smoke or stink bombs, or any other pyrotechnic device
24. Using or possessing a laser pointer for other than a classroom related approved activity
25. Inappropriate or offensive physical or sexual contact, whether or not it is consensual
26. Inappropriate exposure of a student’s body parts, including exposure of any portions of the body that are ordinarily covered by clothing or required to be covered by the dress code
27. Behaving in any way that disrupts the school environment or educational process
28. Using, possessing or smoking tobacco products
29. Using or possessing matches or a lighter
30. Using or possessing a knife with a blade of 5 ½ inches or less
31. Truancy, i.e., skipping school or cutting class without the parent’s or school’s knowledge or permission
32. Using, possessing or distributing any substance represented to be an illegal drug, a dangerous drug, a controlled substance, alcohol, or a prescription drug
33. Violating the District’s policy on taking prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs at school
34. Violating computer use policies, rules, or agreements signed by the student and/or agreements signed by the student’s parent or guardian
35. Gambling of any kind
36. Violating safety rules
37. Violating dress or grooming standards
38. Being a member of, pledging to become a member of, or soliciting another person to join or pledge a public school fraternity, sorority, secret society, or gang
39. Gang-related behavior or activity, including tagging of personal property on campus
40. Assisting, encouraging, promoting, or attempting to assist in the commission of a serious offense
41. Failing to report the commission of a serious offense by another student to a school official
42. Hazing
43. Making a false alarm or report of bombing, fire, or other emergency involving a public school, which includes the following offenses:
a. Pulling a fire alarm or discharging a fire extinguisher in a building owned or operated by MCISD, when there is no smoke, fire, or danger that requires evacuation
b. Calling 911 when no emergency exists
44. Making a terroristic threat involving a public school
45. Retaliating against any school employee or volunteer
46. Repeatedly violating previously communicated campus or classroom standards of behavior
47. Violating DAEP rules while assigned to the DAEP
48. Engaging in any conduct punishable as a felony, which includes the offenses of:
a. Causing an employee to be in contact with the blood, bodily fluids, saliva, urine, or feces of
any person or animal
b. Placing graffiti on any tangible property owned by the District
c. Distributing, selling, delivering, or attempting to distribute, sell or deliver any substance
represented to be an illegal drug, a dangerous drug, a controlled substance, or alcohol
d. Online harassment
49. Committing an assault of any kind, which may include dating violence
50. Selling, giving, or delivering to another person or possessing, using or being under the influence of marijuana or a controlled substance or a dangerous drug
51. Selling, giving, or delivering to another person an alcoholic beverage; committing a serious act or offense while under the influence of alcohol; or possessing, using, or being under the influence of alcohol
52. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of an offense relating to an abusable volatile chemical
53. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of public lewdness or indecent exposure
54. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of improper photography or visual recording
55. Using, exhibiting, or possessing a firearm, except as permitted for participation or preparation for a school-sanctioned shooting sports educational activity sponsored by Texas Parks & Wildlife and that is not located on school property
56. Using, exhibiting, or possessing an illegal knife
57. Using, exhibiting, or possessing a club
58. Using, exhibiting, or possessing a prohibited weapon
59. Possessing material that is pornographic
60. Engaging in conduct that constitutes dating violence, including the intentional use of physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse to harm, threaten, intimidate or control another person with whom the student has or has had a dating relationship
61. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of aggravated assault, sexual assault, or aggravated sexual assault
62. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of arson
63. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of murder, capital murder, or criminal attempt to commit murder or capital murder
64. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of indecency with a child
65. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of aggravated kidnapping
66. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of aggravated robbery against another student
67. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of manslaughter
68. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of criminally negligent homicide
69. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of continuous sexual abuse of a young child or children
70. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of deadly conduct