Student Behavior and Discipline

Level 1: Staff

Level 1 violations will generally be addressed by the staff member supervising the student when the violation occurs. The staff member’s response should teach the correct, alternative behavior so that the student can learn from their mistake and demonstrate safe and respectful behaviors in the future.

• Staff member and student contact parent/guardian and documents in the Contact Log into Infinite Campus (IC) (Teachers/Admin will support with documentation in IC if needed)

Minimum: Redirect & Reteach

Maximum: Restorative Action

Level 2: Staff & Admin

Level 2 violations will generally result in interventions or disciplinary responses that may involve the school administration. These actions aim to correct behavior by stressing the seriousness of the behavior while keeping the student in school. 

• Staff member and student contact parent/guardian and documents in the Contact Log into Infinite Campus 

• Building administration will communicate disciplinary outcomes with involved staff.

Minimum: Redirect & Reteach

Maximum: Restorative Action or up to 2 days ISS

Level 3: Staff, Admin, & Parent

Level 3 violations will generally result in interventions or disciplinary responses that may involve the school administration. These actions aim to correct behavior by stressing the seriousness of the behavior and may result in removal (half-day up to five days) from the school environment as well as education opportunities around the behavior.

• Building administrator contacts parent/guardian and documents in the Contact Log/Behavior Log in Infinite Campus

• Building administration will communicate disciplinary outcomes with involved staff.

Minimum: 1/2 day ISS/OSS

Maximum: 5 day OSS

Level 4: Staff, Admin, Parent, & S/S

Level 4 violations will generally result in interventions or disciplinary responses that involve the school administration and/or Department of Safety and Security. These actions aim to correct behavior by stressing the seriousness of the behavior and may result in removal (half-day up to 365 days) from the school environment, education opportunities around the behavior and/or district-level behavior interventions.

• Building administration contacts parent/guardian and documents in the Contact Log/Behavior Log in Infinite Campus

• Building administration will communicate disciplinary outcomes with involved staff.

Minimum: 3 day OSS

Maximum: 10 day OSS / Potential referral for expulsion

Level 5: Staff, Admin, Parent, & S/S

Level 5 discipline infractions have the potential for a referral for expulsion. The school will consult with the Department of Safety and Security and seek a 10-day suspension and refer the student for expulsion.

• Building administration contact parent/guardian and document in the Contact Log/Behavior Log in Infinite Campus

• Building administration will communicate disciplinary outcomes with involved staff.

Minimum: 10 day OSS

Maximum: Potential referral for expulsion

Greeley-Evans School District 6 - Response to Behaviors 

1. Any clothing item or accessory that causes a disruption to school safety, personal safety and/or the learning environment may result in discretionary intervention by school administrators.

2. Tattoos, clothing or accessories that display drugs, including any marijuana reference, sexual innuendos, inappropriate language, alcohol, tobacco products, violence, weapons or gang connotations are not permitted. Tattoos displaying any of these must be covered at all times.

3. No hats permitted inside of the school building during the school day.  If “hoodies” are worn, the hood may not be worn inside of the school. (Religious headwear exceptions.)

4. Sunglasses or dark glasses, absent a verified medical condition, are not to be worn or displayed inside of the school building.

5. Trench coats are not permitted anywhere on school property.

6. Soled shoes or sandals must be worn at all times.  (For example, no “bedroom” slippers or similar footwear.)

7. No exposed undergarments, inappropriately sheer, tight or low-cut clothing that bare or expose traditionally private parts of the body including, but not limited to, the stomach, buttocks, back, breasts or cleavage.

8. No shaved or notched eyebrows. (Absent a verified medical condition.)

9. No red or blue unnatural hair color, belts or shoelaces.

10. No clothing or belt buckles that display the numbers 13, 14, 18, 31, 41 or 81.

11. No solid red or solid blue shirts. (Other than designated school uniforms.)

12. No red or blue “Dickies” or “Southpole” brand pants, shorts or shirts.

13. No red or blue bandana or any color bandana that is draped on clothing or hanging out of a pocket.

Exceptions: Appropriate athletic clothing may be worn in physical education classes.  Clothing normally worn when participating in school-sponsored, extra-curricular or sports activities (such as cheerleading uniforms and the like) may be worn to school when approved by administration.

Note: Greeley-Evans School District 6 Non-Negotiable Universal Student Dress Code Expectations has been endorsed and supported by the D6 Council of Student Representatives.

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.

Reference to Board Policy ADA 

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.

• • 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.

  • 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.