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Lincoln Public Schools

Lincoln Public Schools. Policy Against Harassment Summer 2009. Harassment. “The Lincoln Public Schools expect all individuals – employees and students alike – to treat each other with dignity and respect.”

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Lincoln Public Schools

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  1. Lincoln Public Schools Policy Against Harassment Summer 2009

  2. Harassment • “The Lincoln Public Schools expect all individuals – employees and students alike – to treat each other with dignity and respect.” • “Harassment includes verbal or physical conduct that may or does offend, denigrate or belittle any individual.” • “Such conduct includes showing pictures, telling jokes, making innuendoes, vulgar gestures, or other behavior that creates an atmosphere of intolerance, bias, or intimidation.”

  3. Harassment • Unlawful per Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Unlawful per Massachusetts Civil Rights Act MGL c. 12 s.11H, 11I • School is obligated to investigate

  4. Sexual Harassment • “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.” • School is obligated to investigate

  5. Reporting Harassment • Inform school principal to start investigation process • Discussion will occur with all parties involved • Identification/questioning of witnesses • Come to a resolution/Outcome • Outcome Possibilities: • Action taken to end the harassment • Action taken to insure harassment will not be repeated • Corrective actions may be taken • Student as harasser • Investigation • Possible suspension or expulsion

  6. Reporting Harassment • If you do not want to discuss with your school principal, go directly to the Superintendent of Schools • Will conduct investigation or • May designate a member of the Administrative Team to conduct the investigation and/or hear the complaint • “The Lincoln Public Schools will not tolerate any retaliation against any person who files a complaint or who cooperates in an investigation into possible harassment. The Superintendent will take disciplinary action against any person who engages in unlawful retaliation.”

  7. What else can I do? • Read the Lincoln School Committee’s Policy Against Harassment, revised June 5, 2000. • The state agency responsible for enforcing the laws prohibiting harassment is the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. • http://www.mass.gov/mcad/ • The federal agency responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting harassment is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. • http://www.eeoc.gov/

  8. Acknowledgements • Thank you to Stephen McKenna for creating this power point presentation. • Thank you to Kathleen Browning, Administrative Intern, for editing and formatting this power point presentation.

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