Harassment+Policy

=**Harassment Policy -**=

Annunciation is committed to provide a learning environment that is free from harassment in any form. Harassment of any student by any other student, lay employee, religious or priest is prohibited. The school will treat allegations of harassment seriously and will review and investigate such allegations in a prompt, confidential and thorough manner.

A charge of harassment shall not, in and of itself, create the presumption of wrongdoing. However, substantiated acts of harassment will result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal. Students found to have filed false or frivolous charges will also be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

Harassment occurs when an individual is subjected to treatment or a school environment which is hostile or intimidating because of the individual's race, creed, color, national origin, physical disability or sex. Harassment can occur any time during school or during school related activities. It includes, but is not limited to, any or all of the following:

VERBAL HARASSMENT: Derogatory comments and jokes; threatening words spoken to another person;

PHYSICAL HARASSMENT: Unwanted physical touching, contact, assault, deliberate impeding or blocking movements, or any intimidating interference with normal work or movement.

VISUAL HARASSMENT: Derogatory, demanding or inflammatory posters, cartoons, written words, drawings, gestures; and

SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when any or all of the following occurs:

1) Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a student’s academic status or progress; or implicitly a term or condition of a student's academic status or progress 2) Submission to or rejection of such conduct by student is used as the basis of academic decisions affecting the individual;

3) Such conduct has the purpose of effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s academic performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive educational environment.