Academic Dishonesty: Engaging alone or collaborating with others to take part in dishonest or deceitful activities such as lying, cheating, unauthorized use of artificial intelligence, plagiarism or stealing to gain an academic advantage in assignments, tasks or other school related activities.

Alcoholic Beverage: A drink or substance that contains ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is a psychoactive substance that can alter mood, consciousness, and behavior. Examples include, beer, wine, spirits (liquor), and cocktails, etc.

Antisemitism: is defined by Government Code section 448.001 as a certain perception of Jews that may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. The term includes rhetorical and physical acts of antisemitism directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property or toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Examples of antisemitism are included with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's "Working Definition of Antisemitism" adopted on May 26, 2016.

Arson is a crime that involves starting a fire or causing an explosion with intent to destroy or damage, any vegetation, fence or structure on open-space land; or building, habitation or vehicle:

Knowing that it is within the limits of an incorporated city or town,
Knowing that it is insured against damage or destruction,
Knowing that it is subject to a mortgage or other security interest,
Knowing that it is located on property belonging to another,
Knowing that it has located within property belonging to another, or
When the person starting the fire is reckless about whether the burning or explosion will endanger the life of some individual or the safety of the property of another.

Assault: Offense defined in part by Texas Penal Code §22.01(a)(1) as intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury to another. Texas Penal Code §22.01(a)(2) defines assault as intentionally or knowingly threatening another with imminent bodily injury. Texas Penal Code §22.01(a)(3) defines assault as intentionally or knowingly causing physical contact with another when the person knows or should reasonably believe that the other will regard the contact as offensive or provocative.

Burglary: The entering of a habitation or building with the intent to commit theft.

Bullying: Bullying is when a student engages in written or verbal expression, expression through electronic means, or physical conduct that occurs on school property, at a school-sponsored or school-related activity, or in a vehicle operated by the district and the Board of Trustees or the Board’s designee determines that the behavior: (1) has the effect or will have the effect of physically harming a student, damaging a student’s property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to the student’s person or of damage to the student’s property; or (2) is sufficiently severe, persistent, and or pervasive enough that the action or threat creates an intimidating, threatening or abusive educational environment for a student. This conduct is considered bullying if it: (1) Exploits an imbalance of power between the student perpetrator who is engaging in bullying and the student victim through the written or verbal expression or physical conduct; and (2) Interferes with a student’s education or substantially disrupts the operation of a school. See also, the definition of Cyber bullying below.

Campus Reassignment: The removal of a student for serious or persistent misbehavior or illegal acts from his or her assigned campus to another campus within the same school district. All campus reassignments must be approved by the Director of Student Services. Transportation is not provided.

Canine Unit: The district is authorized by Board Policy FNF http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Code/1098?filter=FNF to use dogs to sniff for illicit drugs, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceutical medication, explosives and firearm ammunition. The district’s use of dogs is intended to minimize dangerous drugs, alcohol, explosives and firearms being brought to a campus.

Class Re-assignment: Class re-assignment is the removal of a student from their assigned classroom to another class on the same campus for either serious or persistent misbehavior or an illegal act. To the extent possible, the student should continue to receive instruction in the courses they were enrolled in when the removal became effective.

Club: An instrument specially designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting serious bodily injury or death by striking a person with the instrument including a blackjack, mace and tomahawk as defined by Penal Code 46.01(1)

Conference: A procedure in which the student shall be advised of the conduct with which they are charged. The student shall be given the opportunity to explain their version of the incident.

Conspiracy: An agreement formed between or a concerted effort by two or more persons for the purpose of committing a criminal act or a violation of the Student Code of Conduct. The conspiracy and the resulting corrective actions may continue even if one of the actors drops out of the initial act.

Contraband: The possession of property that is inappropriate for school or forbidden by law or by Board policy.

Controlled Substances: Drugs whose general availability is restricted; any one of a number of drugs or other substances which are strictly outlawed because of their potential for abuse or addiction. Such drugs include those classified as narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens and cannabis.

Criminal Mischief: A person commits an offense if, without the consent of the school or school district, they intentionally or knowingly tamper with, damage, or destroy school property.

Criminal Street Gang: Three or more persons having a common identifying sign or symbol or an identifiable leadership who continuously or regularly associate in the commission of criminal activities.

Criminal Trespass: Texas Penal Code §30.05 defines conduct constituting a criminal trespass. While AISD shall rely on the provisions of §30.05 to determine whether a criminal trespass has occurred, a general description of the prohibited conduct appears below:

Prohibits entry into or remaining on school property without consent after being notified that entry was forbidden or notified to depart.

Cyberbullying: Use of any electronic communication device to engage in bullying or intimidation. Please refer to page 101.

Dangerous Drug: A medication/illegal drug classified by the Texas Penal Code and/or Physician’s Desk Reference as being a dangerous drug.

Dating violence is the intentional use of physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse by a person to harm, threaten, intimidate or control another person with whom the student has or has had a dating relationship, as defined by Section 71.0021 of the Family Code.

Days: Unless otherwise noted, days shall mean school days.

Deadly conduct: When a person recklessly engages in conduct that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury, such as knowingly discharging a firearm in the direction of an individual, habitation, building or vehicle.

Deferred Adjudication: Alternative to seeking a conviction in court that may be offered to a juvenile for delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision.

Deferred Prosecution: May be offered to a juvenile as an alternative to seeking a conviction in court for delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision.

Defiance: To challenge, confront, resist or refuse to follow directions, requests or instructions given by school personnel. Defiance is considered a serious act by the AISD.

Detention: An on-campus setting designed for deprivation of a student’s personal time as a corrective action.

Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP): A supervised educational setting for students who have violated the Student Code of Conduct. Courses of study include English language arts, math, science, history and self-discipline. The district is not required to provide other subjects to students while they are assigned to a DAEP.

Disciplinary Alternative Education School: A supervised setting for the discipline management of students who violate the Student Code of Conduct or commit serious or illegal acts under such code or the penal code. A student may be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education school by the Board or its designee for conduct, including that outside of school and off school property. The student will be placed in a disciplinary alternative education school when it is reasonably believed the student’s presence in the regular classroom program or at the home campus presents a danger of physical harm to the student or to other individuals.

CHOICES Program: A short-term, supervised, academically non-punitive disciplinary alternative education program where a student is given classroom assignments to the extent that is possible (elementary, junior high and high school students). Transportation is not provided.
Turning Point School: A structured program for senior high, junior high and elementary students designed to modify a student’s behavior and provide opportunities for academic success. This program provides core educational services for senior high, junior high and elementary students who are expelled and/or assigned to this alternative education program. Student counseling services are provided at elementary, junior high and senior high levels. Parent education is provided at all three levels.

Discipline Management Technique: Any action at the campus level, taken by a teacher or administrator, which is intended to promote proper behavior and/or discourage misconduct other than expulsion or removal to a disciplinary alternative education program, including but not limited to student-teacher conferences, suspension of extracurricular activities, detention and in-school suspension for three days or less.

No hearing is required prior to the use of any discipline management technique.

Domestic Violence: According to Title IX, domestic violence occurs when a current or former spouse, cohabitant, or other intimate partner inflicts abuse upon a victim.

Doxing: The action or process of searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual on the internet, typically with malicious intent.

Drug Paraphernalia: Fully defined in the Health and Safety Code §481.002 and includes but is not limited to meaning anything that is and/or could be used to prepare or process any controlled substances for introduction into the human body.

E-Cigarettes: Any device that simulates smoking by using a mechanical heating element, battery, or electronic circuit to deliver nicotine or other substances to the individual inhaling from the device, or a consumable liquid solution or other material aerosolized or vaporized during the use of an electronic cigarette or other device and includes a device regardless of whether the device is manufactured, distributed, or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, or e-pipe or under another product name or description. A component, part, or accessory for the device, regardless of whether the component, part, or accessory is sold separately from the device.

Encouraging a Student to Die by Suicide: Engaging in bullying that encourages another student to die by suicide.

Energy Drink: A beverage that is designed to give an individual increased energy by using a combination of caffeine, methyl xanthene, B vitamins, processed sugar and/or exotic herbal ingredients. In addition, an energy drink is labeled with the wording “energy”, “energy booster” or like phrases. They are not meant to replenish the sugar and minerals lost from the body during physical exercise but instead act as stimulants to increase a person’s energy level.

Emergency Removal: A principal or the principal’s designee can recommend immediate placement of a student in an alternative education program if the principal or the principal’s designee reasonably believes the student’s behavior is so unruly, disruptive or abusive that it seriously interferes with a teacher’s ability to communicate effectively with the students in a class or with the ability of the student’s classmates to learn. The terms of the removal may prohibit the student from attending or participating in school-sponsored or school-related activities.

Expectations (School-Wide Expectations): Broad behavioral characteristics which provide guidance on appropriate behaviors within the school setting, school-related activities or events, and transportation. School-Wide expectations are positively stated, apply to all students and staff in all locations, and clarify the criteria for successful behavior. School-Wide expectations are a key component of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, and serve as the basis for all behavioral instruction and support within the school.

Extended School Detention: A discipline technique requiring students to attend school during times other than normal school hours or school days.

Extracurricular: Any school activity including membership in any club or organization that is not a part of the required curriculum or course of studies.

Felony: A major crime for which the law statute provides a greater punishment than for a misdemeanor.

Fighting: Mutual combat between students that results in physical contact and/or bodily injury. It can also be a case of one student knowingly and intentionally assaulting another student. The administration on each campus may notify law enforcement when there is a fight or assault. Once law enforcement has been notified by the administration, it will be at the discretion of the officer who responds as to whether an arrest should be made and/or a ticket should be issued. Should the officer make the decision to arrest one or more students or to issue a ticket(s), each ticket can range up to $500 for each student.

Gambling: A wager or bet as defined by §47.01 of the Texas Penal Code and/or any other agreement between two or more persons that a sum of money or other valuable thing may be won or lost.

Gangs, Secret Societies, Sororities or Fraternities: Three or more persons having a common identifying sign or symbol or an identifiable leadership who continuously or regularly associate in the commission of violation of the Student Code of Conduct, or an organization composed wholly or in part of students that seeks to perpetuate itself by taking additional members from the students enrolled in school based on a decision of its membership rather than on the free choice of a qualified student. Educational organizations listed in Section 37.121(d) of the Education Code are excluded from this definition. (See also, definition of Criminal Street Gangs.)

Gender Based Harassment - Gender-based harassment includes acts of verbal, nonverbal, or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostility based on sex or sex-stereotyping, even if those acts do not involve conduct of a sexual nature.

Graffiti: Making markings, drawings, or paintings on tangible property while on school grounds without the consent of the school, school district or owner.

Harassment: Repeated threats to cause harm or bodily injury to another student, engaging in intimidating conduct, causing physical damage to the property of another student, subjecting another student to physical confinement or restraint, or maliciously taking any action that substantially harms another student’s physical or emotional health or safety.

Hate Crime - A hate crime is the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone. "A criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity

Hazing: An act against a student that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student. Fully defined in the Texas Education Code §37.151

Hazing (Criminal Offense): Any intentional, knowing, or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in, or maintaining membership in an organization if the act endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student.

Hit List: A list of people targeted to be harmed.

Homebound Instruction: Instructional services for currently enrolled students who provide a licensed physician's report that gives a diagnosis and describes why the enrolled student will be confined to home for 4 or more weeks. The medical condition should impede the student's ability to attend school activities, classroom instruction, or part-time employment (when applicable) for 4 or more weeks due to the severity of the health restrictions.

Horse Play: To engage in mutual pushing and shoving, chest bumping, tussling, etc.

Indecent Assault: Actions taken without the consent of the other person which are to gratify the sexual desire of any person. The actions include: (1) touching the anus, breast, or any part of the genitals of another person; (2) touching another person with the anus, breast, or any part of the genitals of any person; (3) Exposing or attempting to expose another person’s genitals, pubic area, anus, buttocks or female areola; (4) causing another person to contact the blood, seminal fluid, vaginal fluid, saliva, urine, or feces of any person.

In-school Suspension: A special classroom designated as the in-school suspension room. In this setting, the student receives assignments/instruction in each course to the extent possible, with little or no opportunity for social interaction with peers. A student on in-school suspension shall not be allowed to participate in extracurricular or after-school activities.

Instigate: To provoke or incite; to encourage toward a criminal act or a violation of the Student Code of Conduct.

LEA (Local Education Agency): A local entity involved in education including but to limited to school districts, county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, and special education local plan area (SELPA).

Leaving Campus: After arriving on campus, students are not permitted to leave without administrative approval. Students are required to go to the office so parents can be notified of the student’s intent to leave campus. Leaving campus before or during school without permission may result in corrective action.

Location-restricted Knife: As defined by law, a knife with a blade over 5 ½ inches; hand instrument designed to cut or stab another by being thrown; dagger, including a dirk, stiletto and poniard; bowie knife; sword; or spear, or is a defined by local policy. Penal Code 46.01(6); Education Code 37.007(a)(1)(B)

Look-Alike Weapon: Possessing or using a carbon copy weapon as an authentic weapon.

Metal Detectors: The district is authorized by the Board of Trustees [FNF (LOCAL)] to use metal detectors to screen for weapons and other contraband. The district’s use of metal detectors is to minimize the risk of weapons on campus and is determined to be a desirable technique for campus security. No student, employee or visitor should be subject to the dangers inherent in a knife, firearm or other weapon being carried onto the campus by another person. Metal detectors are randomly used on buses, during school hours and upon entering buildings for extracurricular activities.

Obscene: Something which is considered indecent or lewd; something which is objectionable or offensive to the accepted standards of decency.

Offensive: Something which is considered to be disagreeable, distasteful, obnoxious, or objectionable by a reasonable person.

Out of school suspension (Home based instruction): An unsupervised educational setting in which a student is given assignments to complete at home. The student shall receive an excused absence while assigned to out of school suspension. Each suspension may not exceed three days. A student may have more than one suspension per semester; however, the total days of suspension shall not exceed six days per semester unless approved by the Superintendent or designee. Any student who is assigned out of school suspension shall not be allowed on any AISD campus nor allowed to participate in extracurricular or after school activities for the day(s) out of school suspension is assigned.

Assignments will be provided for the student as soon as possible after placement in out of school suspension. Assignments should be returned as soon as completed and assignments should be returned on the first day back to class. Students on short-term placements may not receive assignments until they return. Full credit will be given for completed assignments.

Paging Device: A telecommunication device that emits an audible signal, vibrates, displays a message, or otherwise summons or delivers a communication to the possessor. (TEC 37.082)

Parent/Guardian: Means the biological/genetic mother or father of a child, a court-ordered guardian of a minor child or a person who has accepted responsibility for the child in writing in a form acceptable to the school district.

Persistent misbehavior: Two or more violations of the Student Code of Conduct in general or repeated occurrences.

Personal Communication Device means a telephone, cell phone such as a smartphone or flip phone, tablet, smartwatch, radio device, paging device, or any other electronic device capable of telecommunication or digital communication.

Pornography: Explicit depiction or description of sexual acts.

Possession:

To have contraband on one’s person, in one’s vehicle, or in the vehicle driven by a student to/on campus, or in one’s personal effects, such as a coat, purse, book bag;
To touch or handle contraband;
To have contraband under one’s control;
To have contraband in one’s locker; or
To be in a vehicle either as a driver or passenger with the knowledge that contraband is contained in the vehicle.

Profane Language: Profane language is any language directed to another person with the intent to incite a breach of the peace. Profane language may result in a citation issued by the police.

Progressive Discipline: The system of discipline infractions and corrective actions which are listed in Groups I, II, III, IV. Group I includes the least serious offenses, while Group IV is a serious level of offense with serious corrective actions. Under progressive discipline, a student who repeatedly violates a lower level of expectations without changing their undesirable behavior may automatically progress to a more serious level of corrective action.

Prohibited Substance: Means any substance that when introduced into the body impairs or has the potential to impair the normal use of one’s mental or physical faculties; a prescribed or legal substance that is taken in an amount greater than the recommended dosage or that is prescribed for a different person or purpose.

Prohibited Weapon: As defined by the Texas Penal Code §46.05 and also means any object that is used or intended to be used as a weapon to inflict pain or injury upon another.

Propped doors: Refers to doors that are intentionally held open using an object or device—like a wedge, doorstop, or even furniture—so they don’t close automatically. Potential issues with propped doors:

Security risk – Someone could enter a restricted area unnoticed
Fire safety hazard – Many doors are designed to automatically close to slow the spread of fire/smoke
Violation of building codes or policies

Public Display of Affection: The only appropriate public displays of affection at school are hand holding, walking arm-in-arm, and/or a brief hug, as in a greeting between any two persons that does not disrupt the learning environment.

Restorative Language: Affective questions and statements that are used to develop interpersonal relationships leading to safe, collaborative classroom culture.

Retaliation: The act or threat of doing harm or taking action toward another person because the person exercised legal authority over the student, disciplined the student or reported the student.

Robbery: Causing injury or fear of imminent injury or death while stealing or committing theft.

School Day: The time a student first enters a school building for the day until the last dismissal bell for the day. For students participating in school-related activities off-campus and/or school-related activities that begin before the first school bell of the day or conclude after the last dismissal bell of the day. School personnel supervising such activities have discretion when the school day begins and ends.

Section 504: Having physical or mental impairment, which substantially limits one or more major life activities.

Self Defense: The use of force against another to the degree a person reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect their self. The privilege of self-defense is limited. A claim of self-defense in the use of physical force will not exempt a student from discipline when:

The student provokes, invites or encourages the use of physical force by another person.
The student has an opportunity to avoid physical force or to inform a school official of the threatened use of force.
The student uses physical force after the other party abandons or attempts to abandon a fight or confrontation.

Serious Misbehavior:

Actions or demonstrations that substantially disrupt or materially interfere with school activities
Any Title V offense under the Texas Penal Code
Bullying
Coercion, as defined by Section 1.07 of the Texas Penal Code
Criminal mischief, under Section 28.03 of the Texas Penal Code
Extortion, or blackmail
Deliberate violent behavior that poses a threat to the health or safety of others
Falsification of records, passes or other school-related documents
Fighting, committing physical abuse, or threatening physical abuse
Hazing
Harassment, under Section 42.07(a)(1) of the Texas Penal Code, of a student or district employee
Indecent exposure, under Section 21.08 of the Texas Penal Code
Insubordination
Leaving school grounds without permission
Murder
Personal hazing, under Section 37.152 of the Texas Penal Code
Possession of or conspiracy to possess any explosive or explosive device
Possession or distribution of pornographic materials
Profanity, vulgar language, or obscene gestures
Public lewdness, under Section 21.07 of the Texas Penal Code
Refusal to accept discipline assigned by the teacher or principal
Robbery or theft
Sexual harassment of a student or district employee
Vandalism

Serious or Persistent Misbehavior includes but is not limited to:

Behavior identified by the district as grounds for discretionary DAEP placement
Actions or demonstrations that substantially disrupt or materially interfere with school activities
Refusal to attempt or complete school work as assigned
Insubordination
Profanity, vulgar language, or obscene gestures
Leaving school grounds without permission
Falsification of records, passes, or other school-related documents.
Refusal to accept discipline assigned by the teacher or principal

Sexting: Taking, sending or forwarding obscene, sexually oriented, or sexually explicit nude or partially nude images of oneself or others, or sending or forwarding texts that are obscene, sexually oriented, or sexually explicit. In some instances, such acts have been classified as illegal, e.g., child pornography.

Sexual Assault: Sexual contact or behavior that occurs without explicit consent of the victim.

Fondling: The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental capacity.
Incest: Sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Rape: The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.
Statutory Rape: Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Sexual Coercion: Threatening to commit certain offenses unless the victim agrees to give actor intimate visual material, perform sexual act, or give actor money.

Sexual Conduct: When a student touches the private body parts of their self or engages in sexual contact with another person for the purpose of sexual gratification. An offense of sexual conduct may result in notification of Child Protective Services and/or local law enforcement agencies.

Sex discrimination: Treating someone differently or worse because of their actual or perceived gender or gender identity. This includes conduct based on sexual orientation, such as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other unwanted sexual conduct. This conduct can be physical, such as massages or hugs, or verbal, such as vulgar jokes or discussions about sex.

Sexual Harassment: To engage repeatedly in unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexually abusive or vulgar language or other verbal, visual, or physical conduct if such conduct with a student or staff creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive school environment.

Sexual harassment may result from an intentional or unintentional action and can be subtle or blatant. It can be verbal or physical and can occur in any setting. The context of events can be important in determining whether particular acts constitute sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment can range from nonverbal remarks to physical assault and includes but is not limited to:

Verbal
- Slurs, name calling
- Sexual innuendo and other suggestive, offensive or derogatory comments
- Humor or jokes about sex
- Remarks about someone’s body or apparel
- Catcalls
Nonverbal
- Leering
- Suggestive or insulting sounds or gestures
- Offensive printed or written material
Physical
- Unnecessary and unwanted physical contact
- Impending or blocking movements, which suggest sexual advances
- Physical assault

The considerations listed above are not all inclusive but rather serve as examples.

Corrective Actions for a student who is found to have engaged in sexual harassment may range from parent contact to an assignment to an alternative education program depending on the nature of the inappropriate behavior.

Sexual Violence - Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a persons's sexuality, regardless of the relationship to the victim.

Slap Boxing/Sparring: To engage in motions of attack or defense with the arms, hands, legs or feet.

Slurs: Any statement that degrades or demeans any person’s racial, ethnic, cultural or national origin, religion, disability, sexual preference, gender, and/or gender identity.

Sports Drink: A non-carbonated drink designed to quench thirst faster than normal water to replenish the sugar and minerals lost from the body during physical exercise.

Stalking: A pattern of unwanted conduct directed at another person that threatens or endangers the safety, physical or mental health, or life or property of that person, or creates a reasonable fear of such a threat or action. Also refer to the section on Harassment and Sexual Harassment and to Penal Code §42.072

Telecommunication Device: A device that emits an audible signal, vibrates, displays a message or otherwise summons or delivers a communication to the possessor.

Terroristic Threat: A threat of violence to any person or property with intent to:

Cause a reaction of any type by an official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies;
Place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury;
Prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a building, room; place of assembly, or place to which the public has access; place of employment or occupation; aircraft, automobile or other form of conveyance; or other public place;
Cause impairment or interruption of public communications, public transportation, public water, gas, power supply or other public service;
Place the public or a substantial group of the public in fear of serious bodily injury; or
Influence the conduct or activities of a branch or agency of the federal government, the state or a political subdivision of the state (including the school district).

Theft: When a person commits an offense that unlawfully appropriates property with the intent to deprive the owner of the property.

Threats: An expression of intention or warning that one will inflict harm, evil, injury, or damage.

Threatening to use a firearm: If in a manner intended to cause alarm or personal injury to another person or to damage school property, the person intentionally, threatens to exhibit or use a firearm in or on property, including a parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area, that is owned by a private or public school or on a bus and was in possession of or has immediate access to the firearm or threatens to exhibit or use a firearm in or on property, including a parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area, that is owned by a private or public school or on a bus.

Title 5 offenses: Those that involve injury to a person and include murder; kidnapping; trafficking of persons; smuggling or continuous smuggling of persons; assault; aggravated assault; sexual assault; aggravated sexual assault, unlawful restraint; continuous sexual abuse of a young child or disabled individual; bestiality; improper relationship between educator and student, voyeurism; indecency with a child; invasive visual recording; disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material; sexual coercion; injury to a child, an elderly person or a disabled person; abandoning or endangering a child; deadly conduct; terroristic threat; aiding a person to die by suicide; and tampering with a consumer product [See Board Policy FOC (LEGAL)]

Under the Influence: Lacking the normal use of mental or physical faculties. Impairment of a person’s physical or mental faculties may be evidenced by a pattern of abnormal or erratic behavior, the presence of physical symptoms of drug or alcohol use, or by admission. A student “under the influence” need not be legally intoxicated to trigger corrective action.

Title IX: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Title IX protects against sex discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual violence, and retaliation against people who make or participate in complaints about sex discrimination.

Unauthorized Entry: In order to help maintain the integrity of our facilities, all students and visitors are required to follow the district protocols for accessing any AISD facility. This means that all persons must enter through the officially-designated entry point(s) for each location. Unauthorized entry into an AISD facility is not allowed and any violation thereof is deemed a serious breach of safety protocols. This applies any student who gains unauthorized entry or allows another to gain unauthorized entry into any facility. Unauthorized entry occurs when a student:

Knowingly or intentionally enters into a district facility without going through an officially-designated entry point,
Allows any person entry into any district facility by opening, propping, or otherwise rendering a door, window, or other access point unsecure, regardless if the door, window, or access point is deemed an officially-designated entry point, and/or
Tailgating or piggybacking a staff member or other authorized student who enters into a facility through any entrance other than an officially-designated entry point during normal ingress times(*).

Vandalism: Willful or malicious acts that are intended to damage or destroy property and/or reckless acts that result in the damage or destruction of property.

Volatile Chemical: Anything used for other than its intended purpose that may alter one’s mood.

Weapon: An object, instrument, substance, or device used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.

Weapon Free Zone: As defined in the Texas Penal Code §46.11.

Zip gun: A device or combination of devices, not originally a firearm, but adapted to expel a projectile through a smooth-bore or rifled bore barrel by using the energy generated by an explosion or burning substance.