Title IX Educational Equity

Sexual Harassment and Non-Discrimination Policies and Procedures

If a student believes his or her rights under Title IX have been violated, they have the right to file a complaint without fear of retaliation. Students have the right to be treated equally in all areas of education, including:

• Education programs and activities
• The classes they can take
• The way they are treated in the classroom.
• The kind of counseling they are given.
• Limiting a student"s access to educational tools.
• Extracurricular activities in which a student can participate.
• The honors, special awards, scholarships, and graduation activities in which they can participate.
• Counseling and counseling materials.
• Pregnant and parenting students.
• Athletics.
• Sexual harassment.

Title IX protects students from sexual harassment, nondiscrimination and bullying. This means that no student, teacher, administrator or other school employee can make unwelcome sexual advances, request sexual favors discriminate or bully a student. They cannot touch or speak to a student in a sexual, discriminatory or bullying manner at school or at a school-sponsored event.

Types of conduct which are prohibited in the district and which may constitute sexual harassment include, but are not limited to:

• Unwelcome sexual flirtations or propositions.
• Sexual slurs, leering, epithets, threats, verbal abuse, derogatory comments or sexually degrading descriptions.
• Graphic verbal comments about an individual’s body, or overly personal conversation.
• Sexual jokes, notes, stories, drawings, pictures or gestures.
• Spreading sexual rumors.
• Teasing or sexual remarks about students enrolled in a predominantly single-sex class.
• Touching an individual"s body or clothes in a sexual way.
• Purposefully cornering or blocking normal movements.
• Displaying sexually suggestive objects.
• Writing nasty jokes or graffiti.
• Hostile or demeaning conduct targeting someone’s sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Types of conduct which are prohibited in the district and which may constitute bullying, but are not limited to:

• Touching or bothering other students if they don’t want you to. “I was only playing” is not a good reason.
• Teasing or making fun of other students.
• Joining in when someone else is teasing or bullying a student.
• Purposefully cornering or blocking normal movements.
• Intentionally pushing, bumping or knocking a student to the ground.
• Any hostile or aggressive conduct towards a student for the purpose of intimidation.