13. HARASSMENT POLICY

De La Salle High School is committed to providing a learning environment that is free from unlawful harassment in any form, including on the basis of any of the following categories: sex, gender, pregnancy, national origin, race, creed, color, age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic prohibited by law. This policy applies to unlawful harassment by employees, coaches, students, volunteers, or other third parties while on campus, or communicating about school matters.

Harassment includes verbal, visual, and physical conduct on the basis of any of the protected categories listed above and that are severe or pervasive enough to create a school environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive. Harassing conduct can occur in-person, by telephone, mail, voice or electronic mail, or by social media communications (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and any other social media platform), and during school or in connection to school-related activities. Harassing conduct can take many forms and includes, but is not limited to derogatory comments, epithets, slurs, jokes, pictures, cartoons, or posters.

Prohibited harassment includes, but is not limited to, the following behavior:

1. Unwanted sexual advances or propositions; e.g., requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when any or all of the following occurs: a. Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a student’s academic status or progress; b. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by a student is used as the basis of academic decisions affecting the individual; c. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s academic performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational environment. 2. Verbal Conduct; e.g., sexually oriented noises, remarks, comments, jokes, slurs, epithets, or statements about a person’s sexuality or sexual experience. 3. Physical Conduct; e.g., unwanted or inappropriate physical touching, contact, assault, deliberate impeding or blocking movements, or any intimidating interference with normal work or movement. 4. Visual Conduct; e.g., posters, calendars, books, magazines, screen savers, cartoons, pictures, drawings, sexually oriented gestures, or other materials. 5. Retaliation for having reported or threatened to report harassment. 6. Cyberbullying is defined as willful and repeated harm inflicted on another person through electronic media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Periscope, and the like). Any student who sends a partial or fully naked picture of a minor or