Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part LXXIX - Bulletin 741 (Nonpublic)-Louisiana Handbook for Nonpublic School Administrators
Chapter 13 - Preventive Programs
Section LXXIX-1311 - Bullying
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code LXXIX-1311
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Policy. Each nonpublic school shall develop and adopt a policy that prohibits the bullying of a student by another student in accordance with R.S. 17:416.14.
1. The bullying policy shall be implemented
in a manner that is ongoing throughout the year and integrated with a school's
curriculum, a school's discipline policies, and other violence prevention
efforts.
2. The policy shall
contain the definition of bullying found in this Section and shall address the
following:
a. process for reporting and
appeals;
b. procedures for
investigating reports of bullying; and
c. the disciplinary and criminal consequences
of bullying another student.
B. Training for School Personnel. Each school shall create a program to provide for all school employees, including bus drivers, who have contact with students. The training shall be four hours for new employees and two hours annually thereafter and shall specifically include the following:
1. how to recognize the
behaviors defined as bullying;
2.
how to identify students at each grade level who are most likely to become
victims of bullying, while not excluding any student from protection from
bullying;
3. how to use appropriate
intervention and remediation techniques and procedures;
4. the procedures by which incidents of
bullying are to be reported to school officials; and
5. information on suicide prevention,
including the relationship between suicide risk factors and bullying.
C. Definition of Bullying
1.
Bullying is defined as a
pattern of one or more of the following behaviors:
a. gestures, including but not limited to
obscene gestures and making faces;
b. written, electronic, or verbal
communications, including but not limited to calling names, threatening harm,
taunting, malicious teasing, or spreading untrue rumors;
c. physical acts, including but not limited
to hitting, kicking, pushing, tripping, choking, damaging personal property, or
unauthorized use of personal property; and
d. repeatedly and purposefully shunning or
excluding from activities.
2. Behavior defined as bullying is exhibited
toward a student, more than once, by another student or group of students and
occurs, or is received by, a student while on school property, at a
school-sponsored or school-related function or activity, in any school bus or
van, at any designated school bus stop, in any other school or private vehicle
used to transport students to and from schools, or any school-sponsored
activity or event.
3. Bullying must
have the effect of physically harming a student, placing the student in
reasonable fear of physical harm, damaging a student's property, placing the
student in reasonable fear of damage to the student's property, or must be
sufficiently severe, persistent, and pervasive enough to either create an
intimidating or threatening educational environment, have the effect of
substantially interfering with a student's performance in school, or have the
effect of substantially disrupting the orderly operation of the
school.
D. - G.3.c. Repealed.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:416.13.
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