Student Behavior and Support

Consequences for inappropriate behavior are contained in the following chart which is used in all schools. The school’s responses to inappropriate behaviors are subject to change by the direction of Weld County District 6 Board of Education. Prior to the imposition of a consequence, the student will be informed of the behavior for which the consequence is being imposed and will have some opportunity to explain their side of the story. Students using the Internet must abide by the provision of the District 6 Technology User Agreement and Colorado Revised Statute 18-5.5-101 and 18.5.5-102 (also Title 17, USC Section 102). Copies are available upon request. For students identified as disabled and on an Individual Education Plan, please refer to policy/procedure JK*-2. Please note that any infraction marked with an asterisk (*) may involve a school police resource officer or local law enforcement agency. CCS means community/campus service and suspension can be in-school (ISS) or out-of-school (OSS). In addition, certain infractions will be reported to Aims Community College’s campus safety team and Dean of Students. Students then may be subject to the Aims Community College disciplinary process in addition to other consequences or investigations.

Greeley-Evans School District 6 developed a level system to help identify and provide appropriate interventions to address student misconduct. While every attempt will be made to maximize the time that students are engaged in the learning process, schools should select interventions that support students and maintain an orderly and safe learning environment.

Failure to comply with any school guidelines (both District 6 and Aims Community College), state laws, or school board policies may lead to disciplinary measures. Such disciplinary measures may include, but are not limited to, administrative conferences, parent conferences, detention, restitution, loss of privileges, suspension and/or expulsions and criminal charges.

Bullying behavior can have a negative effect on the school climate and can lead to more serious behaviors affecting the health, safety, and welfare of students. The Board supports a secure school climate, conducive to teaching and learning that is free from threat, harassment and any type of bullying behavior. The purpose of this policy is to promote consistency of approach and to help create a climate in which all types of bullying are regarded as unacceptable. Bullying is the use of coercion to obtain control over another person or to be habitually cruel to another person. Bullying can occur through written, verbal or electronically transmitted expression or by means of a physical act or gesture. Bullying is prohibited on district property, at district or school-sanctioned activities and events, when students are being transported in any vehicle dispatched by the district or one of its schools, or off school property when such conduct has a connection to school or any district curricular or non-curricular activity or event. A student who engages in any act of bullying is subject to appropriate disciplinary action, including suspension, expulsion and/or referral to law enforcement authorities. The severity and pattern of the bullying behavior, if any, shall be considered when disciplinary decisions are made. Instructors who observe or become aware of bullying shall take appropriate steps to intervene and/or report such behavior to the school principal.  Parents and students who become aware of bullying are encouraged to report it to the school principal. The school principal shall take appropriate steps to educate students about ways to prevent bullying.

1. Leading or inciting others to materially and substantially disrupt scheduled activities at any location on the college campuses.
2. Substantial disruption or obstruction of teaching, research, administration, or other college activities including its public service functions on or off campus or other authorized activities on campus.
3. Material or substantial disruption of any activity or event sponsored by the college or an organization either on or off campus.
4. Obstruction of ingress to or egress from any college building or facility.
5. Obstruction of the free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on campus.
6. Obstructing or failing to comply with the directions of a security official, firefighter, or college official in the performance of his or her duties on the Aims Community College campuses, or at any activity or event sponsored by the college, or at an organization of the college.
7. Using obscene language in the classroom or directed to any college employee.

1. Students are prohibited from selling, representing they are selling, dispensing, or representing that they are dispensing, possessing, distributing, using, abusing, or being under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, or any other controlled substance while on campus or at a college-sponsored event, whether or not on campus.
2. The use of all tobacco products is prohibited in all buildings owned and operated by the college. This includes smoking/vaping using cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hookahs, or any other smoking product as well as dip, chew, snuff, snus, and any other smokeless tobacco product. Tobacco use is prohibited on walkways and within 15 feet of building entrances per College Procedure 3-725A.
3. The use or possession of marijuana including medical marijuana used or possessed under Colorado Constitution Article 18, Section 14 is strictly prohibited on all college property. In addition, the state constitutional amendment authorizing individuals over the age of 21 to recreationally use marijuana (“Amendment 64”) does not change this prohibition or authorize a student to use marijuana. Federal law, including the Drug Free Schools Act, prohibits the presence or use of drugs, including marijuana. Thus marijuana use or possession, even if in compliance with Amendment 64, is prohibited on campus.
4. The use of a prescription medication other than by the person to whom it is prescribed and in accordance with the prescription is prohibited.
5. Misuse of legal substances including use of general products as intoxicants or “means to get high”; and inhaling or ingesting a substance (including but not limited to nitrous oxide, glue, paint, gasoline, solvent, etc.) other than in connection with its intended purpose is prohibited.

1. Engaging or attempting to engage in any act for the purpose of injuring, threatening to injure, or unreasonably alarming a member of the college including but not limited to physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, or coercion.
2. Engaging in or attempting to engage in any act for the purpose of unreasonably interfering with the work, education, or the environment or activities surrounding the work or education of any member of the campus community. 
3. Using obscene language to verbally abuse any member of the campus community. 
4. Any disparaging comment, epithet, slur, insult, derogatory opinion, or other expressive behavior concerning age, race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and/or gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, disability, veteran status, or any other personal characteristic of an individual or group in such a manner as to exhibit a pattern of abuse, to create a hostile environment, or to provoke a violent reaction or a perception of threat directed toward any member of the college community. 
5. Conduct which is disorderly, lewd or indecent.
6. Stalking, defined as a course of conduct (two or more acts) directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for her/his safety or to suffer substantial emotional distress. Stalking may take many forms including where the individual directly/indirectly or through third parties by any action, method, device, or means follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about a person or interferes with a person’s property.
7. Bullying, defined as severe, aggressive behavior likely to intimidate or intentionally harm, control, or diminish another person physically or mentally.
8. Cyberbullying occurs when an individual is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, or otherwise targeted by another person using the Internet, interactive and digital technology, or mobile phone.
9. Carrying, bringing, using or possessing any dangerous weapon (as defined in this procedure under B5) on campus or at any college sponsored activity subject to Colorado State Law. 
10. Participating in, making claims of, or claiming responsibility for terrorist activity (such as threats of bombs, biological weapons, et.al.), whether in fact or as a hoax.

1. Any sexual misconduct which includes the following: 
   • Non-Consensual Sexual Contact. Any intentional sexual touching however slight with any object by a person upon another person that is without consent and/or by force. 
   • Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse. Any sexual intercourse however slight with any object by a person upon another person that is without consent and/or by force.
   • Sexual Exploitation. Violating the sexual privacy of another or taking unjust or sexual advantage of another without consent and when such behavior does not otherwise constitute sexual assault.
   • Sexual Harassment. Unwelcome verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it unreasonably interferes with, denies, or limits someone’s ability to participate in or benefit from the college’s educational programs and/or activities and may be based on power differential (including but not limited to quid pro quo), the creation of a hostile environment, and/or retaliation. Sexual harassment can include, but is not limited to, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, touching of a sexual nature, making sexual comments, jokes, gestures, writing graffiti, displaying or distributing sexually explicit drawings, pictures, or written materials, calling others sexually charged names, spreading sexual rumors, rating others on sexual activity or performance, or circulating, showing, or creating emails or websites of a sexual nature.
     • Quid Pro Quo. Sexual harassment by a person having power or authority over another when submission to such sexual conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of rating, evaluating, or providing a benefit to an individual’s educational performance.
     • Hostile Environment. Created when sexual harassment is severe, persistent, or pervasive and objectively offensive such that it unreasonably interferes with, denies, or limits someone’s ability to participate in or benefit from the colleges’ education programs.
2. Intimate partner violence which includes the following: 
   • Domestic Violence. Domestic violence is violence or a threatened act of violence committed by a person who is or has been involved in an intimate relationship with the person subjected to the violence. 
   • Dating Violence. Dating violence is violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the person subjected to the violence. The existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on the parties’ statements and with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.