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Sexual Harassment:
<br /> Lal Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs when unwelcome sexual advances,requests for sexual favors,
<br /> and other verbal, nonverbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature by another student, a school employee,or a
<br /> third party on school property or at a school-related activity is sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent so as
<br /> interfere with or limit a student's ability to participate in or benefit from the district's programs or activities,or to
<br /> interfere with or limit an individual's employment,by creating a hostile,humiliating, intimidating,or offensive
<br /> educational or work environment. A victim may also be someone reasonably affected by conduct directed
<br /> toward another individual.
<br /> 12 Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs when a school district's employee explicitly or implicitly conditions
<br /> participation in an education program or activity or bases an educational decision on the student's submission to
<br /> unwelcome sexual advances,requests for sexual favors,or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature,
<br /> whether or not the student submits to the conduct.Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs,for example,when a
<br /> school employee causes a student to believe s(he)must submit to sexual advances to receive a better grade than
<br /> deserved,or is threatened with a loss of promised college application recommendation unless the student dates
<br /> the employee. Quid pro quo sexual harassment also occurs when a school district's employee conditions an
<br /> employee's employment on submission to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other
<br /> verbal or physical conduct of sexual nature or a basis for an employment decision(e.g., promotion,demotion,
<br /> alteration of duties or hours or performance reviews).
<br /> U Sexual harassment may occur adult to student,student to student,student to adult,adult to adult,male to female,
<br /> female to male, female to female, and male to male.
<br /> Depending on the circumstances, sexual harassment may include, but is not
<br /> limited to:
<br /> Lal Verbal forms of sexual harassment, including repeated unwanted requests for dates,sexual rumors,sexually
<br /> explicit jokes, howling, whistles, catcalls, making unwanted gender-based references to a person's physical
<br /> characteristics;
<br /> U Written forms of sexual harassment, including obscene graffiti, sexually graphic computer messages or
<br /> games, love poems or letters continuing after being informed they are unwelcome;
<br /> Lal Nonverbal forms of sexual harassment, including offensive gestures,following or stalking another,comering
<br /> or blocking a person, leering, pressuring for sexual activities;
<br /> 9 Visual forms of sexual harassment, including displaying sexually suggestive or sexually provocative
<br /> photographs, pictures, objects, cartoons, or posters; or
<br /> i� Unwelcome physical touching, including grabbing, groping, squeezing, sexual fondling, kissing,
<br /> brushing against another's body, body hugs, and other unwelcome contact.
<br /> HATE CRIME: A crime motivated by hatred or bias, or where the victim is targeted
<br /> or selected for the crime at least in part because the person is a different
<br /> race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation
<br /> from the perpetrator or because the targeted person has a disability. A hate
<br /> crime may involve a physical attack, threat of bodily harm, physical
<br /> intimidation, or damage to another' s property.
<br /> Indicators that a crime may constitute a hate crime include:
<br /> Use of racial, ethnic, religious or anti-gay slurs;
<br /> 9 Use of symbols of hate, such as a swastika or burning cross;
<br /> 7 Similar behavior toward others who are members of the same protected class;
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