Discipline: Terminology

Arrest Descriptors: (NOTE: Arrests are counted and certified as a discipline incident)

• Arrest ON School Property

• Arrest OFF School Property

• Arrest on school property made by law enforcement officers, security guards, school safety specialists, other school employees, and any citizen arrest.

• Arrest off school property due to contact made from a school employee to law enforcement personnel. NOTE: Students arrested off school property and not reported by a school employee are not reported.

Expulsion

• Students removed from an educational setting to maintain an orderly and effective educational system.

NOTE: Schools are still responsible for the students until they either formally withdraw to another educational setting, dropout, or return after serving the term of the expulsion.

In-School-Suspension (ISS)

• Student is removed from an assigned class or activity to another setting located within the school corporation or building in order to maintain an orderly and effective educational system.

• During the removal to another setting, the suspension must meet the definition of “instructional time,”
  pursuant to IC 20-30-2-1.

Out-of-School Suspension (OSS)

• Students removed from an assigned class or activity to maintain an orderly and effective educational system; not allowed in building

• Students removed from an assigned class or activity to another setting located within the school corporation or building and does not meet the definition of instructional time; the suspension should be reported as an out-of-school suspension.

• Students can be suspended while waiting on an expulsion hearing (IC 20-33-8-23).

• Students may not be suspended from school pending a hearing on a student’s proposed expulsion if the expulsion is ordered for lack of legal settlement (IC 20-33-8-17).

• Students eligible for special education are subject to Article 7, Rule 44

Bullying Descriptors:

• Physical Bullying

• Verbal Bullying

• Social/Relational Bullying

• Written Communication/Electronic Bullying

• Combination (more than one type of Bullying)

Overt, unwanted, repeated acts or gestures, including verbal or written communications or images transmitted in any manner (including digitally or electronically), physical acts committed, aggression, or any other behaviors, that are committed by a student or group of students against another student with the intent to harass, ridicule, humiliate, intimidate, or harm the targeted student and create for the targeted student an objectively hostile school environment that:

1. places the targeted student in reasonable fear of harm to the targeted student's person or property;

2. has a substantially detrimental effect on the targeted student's physical or mental health;

3. has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student's academic performance; or

4. has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student's ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, and privileges provided by the school.

Reporting of Bullying Issues and the Definition of a Bullying Incident is defined by the local school(s) and may be subjective.

Criminal Gang Related Descriptors:

• Criminal Gang Related - Investigation Disposed of Internally

• Criminal Gang Related - Case Referred to Local Law Enforcement

A student who knowingly or intentionally actively participates in a criminal gang, or a student who knowingly or intentionally solicits, recruits, entices, or intimidates another individual to join a criminal gang.

Note: “Wanna Be’s” – general rule; they are not a “wanna be” gang member if they are violating the law.

Reporting of what is considered Gang Activity will be defined by the local school(s) and may be subjective to what is considered a gang issue. 

Chemical Restraint

Administration of a drug or medication to manage a student’s behavior or restrict a student’s freedom of movement that is not a standard treatment and dosage for the student’s medical or psychiatric condition.

Mechanical Restraint

Mechanical restraint means the use of:

• a mechanical device

• a material; or

• equipment; attached or adjacent to a student’s body that the student cannot remove and that restricts the freedom of movement or all or part of the student’s body or restricts normal access to the student’s body

NOTE: This does not include any mechanical, material, or equipment authorized by a licensed physician or other qualified healthcare professional. This does not include a bus harness or other safety equipment used during transport of the student for safety purposes as provided under 575 IAC 1.

Physical Restraint

Physical contact between a school employee and a student:

• in which the student unwillingly participates; and

• involves the use of a manual hold to restrict freedom of movement of all or part of a student’s body or to restrict normal access to the student's body

NOTE: This does not include briefly holding a student without undue force in order to calm or comfort the student, or to prevent unsafe behavior; such as running into traffic or engaging in a physical altercation. This does not include physical contact to escort or gently assist/prompt a student in performing a task or to guide or assist a student from one area to another.

Seclusion

Confinement of a student alone in a room or area from which the student physically is prevented from leaving.

NOTE: This does not include a supervised time-out or scheduled break as described in a student’s individualized education program, in which an adult is continuously present in the room with the student.

Detention

Student experiences disciplinary action at a time other than during instructional time (e.g., before school, after school, and weekends) in order to maintain an orderly and effective educational system. Such actions do not occur during instructional time.

NOTE: Detentions are not counted as suspensions or expulsions and are not reported.

Interim Alternation Education Setting (IAES)

(511 IAC 7-32-53) (511 IAC Rule 44: Discipline Procedures)

Student’s placement when the public school (traditional or charter) removes a student from the student’s current placement as a result of any of the following:

1. Student has been removed for more than ten (10) cumulative instructional days in the same school year, but the removals do not constitute a pattern that results in a change of placement. The school may decide to provide services during the removal in an IAES setting.

2. A Case Conference Committee determines a student’s conduct is not a manifestation of the student’s disability. The committee may determine that during any period of removal a student will receive services in an IAES setting.

3. Student is removed by the school for not more than forty-five (45) instructional days for weapons drugs, or serious bodily injury. The student’s committee must determine the appropriate IAES setting for the period of removal.

Instructional Time

• Time in which students are participating in an approved course, curriculum or educationally related activity under the direction of a teacher.

• Instructional time includes a reasonable amount of passing time between classes within a single school building or on a single school campus, but does not include lunch or recess.

• Homework does not meet the criteria for “instructional time”.

NOTE: It is the responsibility of the local school or corporation to ensure the instruction provided meets the legal definition of “instructional time” (IC 20-30-2-1) which includes the criterion of being “under the direction of a teacher”.

School Resource Officer

An individual who has completed the training and is employed by law enforcement agency.

Time Out

Time Out means a behavior reduction procedure in which access to reinforcement is withdrawn for a certain period of time. Time-out occurs when the ability of a student to receive normal reinforcement in the school environment is restricted.