Student Code of Conduct Offenses

The categories of conduct below are prohibited at school and all school-related activities.

Level I Offenses

• 1. Being in an unauthorized area.
• 2. Causing an individual to act through the use of threat or coercion.
• 3. Computer system violations.
• 4. Damaging or vandalizing property owned by others.
• 5. Defacing or damaging school property, including textbooks, furniture, and other equipment, with graffiti or by other means.
• 6. Disobeying conduct rules regarding school transportation.
• 7. Disrespect of school staff and persons in authority.
• 8. Engaging in any misbehavior that gives school officials reasonable cause to believe that such conduct will substantially disrupt the school program or incite violence.
• 9. Engaging in disruptive actions or demonstrations that substantially disrupt or materially interfere with school activities.
• 10. Engaging in inappropriate verbal, physical, or sexual contact directed toward another student or a school employee.
• 11. Engaging in threatening behavior toward another student or school employee on or off school property.
• 12. Failure to complete assigned homework.
• 13. Failure to comply with directives of school staff (insubordination).
• 14. Failure to comply with school dress code policies and grooming standards.
• 15. Failure to leave campus within 30 minutes of school dismissal (unless involved in an activity under supervision).
• 16. Failure to report known hazing, harassment, or bullying of students.
• 17. Improperly discharging a fire extinguisher.
• 18. Inappropriate behavior (not abusive, threatening, violent).
• 19. Inappropriate public display of affection (public displays of affection deemed inappropriate by public standards such as lewd or inappropriate—kissing, touching, fondling, holding hands, etc.).
• 20. Insensitivity to others.
• 21. Making false accusations or hoaxes regarding school safety.
• 22. Persistent tardiness (tardy, without excuse, on four or more days within a period of 45 rolling school days).
• 23. Possessing a razor, box cutter, chain, or any other object used in a way that threatens or inflicts bodily injury to another person.
• 24. Possessing any electronic devices without permission.
• 25. Possessing matches, lighters, etc.
• 26. Possessing aerosol canisters or any other object used to set off fire alarms.
• 27. Possessing published or electronic material that is designed to promote or encourage illegal behavior or that could threaten school safety; using e-mail or websites at school to encourage illegal behavior; or threatening school safety.
• 28. Refusing to accept discipline management techniques assigned by a teacher or the principal or designee.
• 29. Repeatedly violating campus or classroom standards of behavior.
• 30. Skipping class or mandatory tutorial sessions.
• 31. Throwing objects that can cause bodily injury or property damage.
• 32. Using a skateboard, scooter, and/or rollerblades while on campus.
• 33. Using any telecommunications or other electronic devices, without permission, during school hours.
• 34. Violating Legacy Traditional Schools - Texas’s Virtual Learning Code of Conduct.

Disciplinary Consequences (may not necessarily be followed in order, and progressive disciplinary measures are not required)

• 1. Application of one or more discipline management techniques listed above.
• 2. Confiscation of cell phones or other electronic devices.
• 3. Grade reductions for academic dishonesty.
• 4. In-school suspension.
• 5. Out-of-school suspension.
• 6. Removal from the classroom and/or placement in another classroom.
• 7. Restitution/restoration, if applicable.
• 8. School-assessed and school-administered probation.
• 9. Temporary confiscation of items that disrupt the educational process.
• 10. Verbal correction, oral or written.
• 11. Withdrawal of privileges, such as participation in extracurricular activities and eligibility for seeking and holding honorary offices, and/or membership in school-sponsored clubs or organizations.

Level II Offenses

• 1. Abusing over-the-counter drugs.
• 2. Academic dishonesty (cheating or copying the work of another).
• 3. Being a member of, pledging to become a member of, joining, or soliciting another person to join, or pledge to become a member of a public school fraternity, sorority, secret society, or gang, as defined in Texas Education Code § 37.121.
• 4. Bypassing Internet blocks on school computers or networks to enter unapproved sites.
• 5. Committing extortion, coercion, or blackmail (obtaining money or another object of value from an unwilling person).
• 6. Damaging or vandalizing property owned by others, including but not limited to LTS property or facilities, property belonging to school employees or other students.
• 7. Defacing or damaging LTS property, including textbooks, furniture, and other equipment, or property of any other person with graffiti or by any other means.
• 8. Engaging in offensive conduct of a sexual nature (verbal or physical).
• 9. Failure to comply with conditions of in-school suspension placement.
• 10. Failure to comply with LTS’s medication policies.
• 11. False accusation of conduct that would constitute a misdemeanor or felony.
• 12. Falsifying records, passes, or other school-related documents.
• 13. Fighting/mutual combat.
• 14. Gambling.
• 15. Gang-related activity of any kind or nature (behavior that is deemed serious gang-related activity may be elevated or addressed as a Level Three offense).
• 16. Inappropriate behavior (e.g., violent; threat of being violent; racially, ethnically, or culturally motivated actions).
• 17. Interference with school activities or discipline.
• 18. Involvement in a felony offense not listed in Title 5, Texas Penal Code, and LTS is notified by the police.
• 19. Leaving classroom, school property, or school-sponsored events without permission.
• 20. Making an obscene gesture.
• 21. Persistent Level I offenses (two or more Level One offenses within a semester).
• 22. Possessing drug paraphernalia.
• 23. Possessing, viewing, or distributing pictures, text messages, emails, or other material of a sexual nature in any media format.
• 24. Refusing to allow lawful student search.
• 25. Sexual harassment/sexual abuse not defined as a Level III offense.
• 26. Theft.
• 27. Threats (nonviolent/verbal or written).
• 28. Throwing objects is not considered an illegal weapon that can cause bodily injury or property damage.
• 29. Trespassing on property.
• 30. Unruly, disruptive, or abusive behavior that interferes with the teacher’s ability to communicate effectively with the students in the class.
• 31. Use of profanity or vulgar/offensive language (oral or in writing).
• 32. Using a cell phone or other device to capture images in locker rooms, restroom areas, or other sensitive areas while at school or at a school-related or school-sponsored event.
• 33. Using the Internet or other electronic communications to threaten students or employees, or cause disruption to the school program.
• 34. Verbal or written abuse (e.g., name-calling, racial or ethnic slurs, or derogatory statements that may disrupt the school environment, etc.).
• 35. Violating LTS’s Virtual Learning Code of Conduct.
• 36. Willful destruction of school or personal property and/or vandalism.

Disciplinary Consequences (may not necessarily be followed in order and progressive disciplinary measures are not required)

• 1. Any applicable Level I Disciplinary Consequence or Discipline Management Technique listed above, including multiple consequences at LTS’s discretion.
• 2. Out-of-school suspension.

Level III Offenses

• 1. Abusing a student’s own prescription drug, giving a prescription drug to another student, or possessing or being under the influence of another person’s prescription drug while on LTS property or at a school-related event.
• 2. Aggravated assault.
• 3. Aggravated kidnapping.
• 4. Aggravated robbery.
• 5. Aggravated sexual assault.
• 6. Any offense listed in Sections 37.006(a) or 37.007 (a), (b), and (d) of the Texas Education Code, no matter when or where the offense takes place.
• 7. Arson.
• 8. Assault.
• 9. Burglary of a motor vehicle on campus.
• 10. Commission of a felony offense listed under Title 5, Texas Penal Code.
• 11. Committing or assisting in a robbery or theft, even if it does not constitute a felony according to the Texas Penal Code.
• 12. Committing the following offenses on school property or within 1,000 feet of school property as measured from any point on LTS’s real property boundary line, or while attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off school property:
• a. Behaving in a manner that contains the elements of an offense relating to abusable volatile chemicals.
• b. Behaving in a manner that contains the elements of the offense of public lewdness or indecent exposure.
• c. Committing an assault under Texas Penal Code 22.01(a)(1).
• d. Engaging in conduct punishable as a felony.
• e. Selling, giving, or delivering to another person an alcoholic beverage; committing a serious act or offense while under the influence of alcohol; or possessing, using, or being under the influence of alcohol, if the conduct is not punishable as a felony offense.
• f. Selling, giving, or delivering to another person, or possessing, using, or being under the influence of marijuana, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug in an amount not constituting a felony offense.
• 13. Conduct endangering the health and safety of others.
• 14. Creation or participating in the creation of a “hit list” under Texas Education Code § 37.001(b)(3).
• 15. Criminal attempt to commit murder or capital murder.
• 16. Criminal mischief.
• 17. Criminally negligent homicide.
• 18. Deliberate destruction or tampering with LTS’s computer data or networks.
• 19. Engaging in bullying and/or cyberbullying.
• 20. Engaging in bullying that encourages a student to commit or attempt to commit suicide.
• 21. Engaging in conduct punishable as a felony.
• 22. Engaging in conduct punishable as a felony listed under Title 5 of the Texas penal Code when the conduct occurs off LTS property and not at a school-sponsored or school-related event and
• a. the student receives deferred prosecution;
• b. a court or jury finds that the student has engaged in delinquent conduct; or
• c. the principal or designee has reasonable belief that the student engaged in the conduct.
• 23. Engaging in conduct punishable as a Level III expulsion offense when the conduct occurs off LTS property and not at a school-sponsored or school-related event, and the conduct creates a substantial disruption to the educational environment.
• 24. Engaging in conduct relating to a false alarm or report (including a bomb threat) or a terroristic threat involving a public school.
• 25. Engaging in conduct relating to a false alarm to induce emergency response.
• 26. Engaging in conduct relating to harassment of a LTS employee, including but not limited to the following:
• a. Initiating communication and in the course of the communication making a comment, request, suggestion, or proposal that is obscene
• b. Threatening, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the person receiving the treat, to inflict bodily injury on the person or to commit a felony against the employee, a member of the employee’s family or household, or the employee’s property
• c. Conveying, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the employee receiving the report, a false report, which is known by the scholar to be false, that another person has suffered death or serious bodily injury
• d. Sending repeated electronic communications in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend another
• 27. Engaging in conduct that constitutes dating violence, including intentional use of physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse to harm, threaten, intimidate, or control another person with whom the student has or has had a dating relationship.
• 28. Engaging in conduct that constitutes discrimination or harassment, including conduct motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, gender, disability, or age and directed toward another student or LTS employee.
• 29. Engaging in conduct that constitutes sexual harassment or sexual abuse, whether by word, gesture, or any other conduct directed toward another person, including a LTS student, employee, or volunteer.
• 30. Engaging in conduct that contains the elements of retaliation against any LTS employee or volunteer, whether on or off of school property.
• 31. Engaging in the electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material that
• a. depicts any person engaging in sexual conduct;
• b. depicts a person’s intimate parts exposed;
• c. depicts the covered genitals of a male person that are in a discernibly turgid state; and
• d. is not sent at the request of or with the express consent of the recipient.
• 32. Engaging in inappropriate or indecent exposure of private body parts.
• 33. Engaging in online impersonation.
• 34. Failure to complete more than one scheduled in-school suspension without a confirmed excuse.
• 35. Felony criminal mischief against school property, another student, or school staff.
• 36. Gang activity.
• 37. Hazing.
• 38. Inappropriate sexual conduct.
• 39. Inciting violence against a student through group bullying.
• 40. Indecency with a child.
• 41. Inhalant abuse.
• 42. Issuing a false fire alarm.
• 43. Manslaughter.
• 44. Murder.
• 45. Persistent Level I offenses (four or more Level I offenses committed in any one school year).
• 46. Persistent Level II offenses (two or more Level II offenses committed in any one school year).
• 47. Possessing any prohibited items, including but not limited to,
• a. a “look-alike” weapon (includes but is not limited to BB guns, CO2 guns, air pistols or rifles, pellet guns, or any other device designed to appear to be a firearm or other weapon);
• b. a laser pointer for other than an approved use;
• c. a pocket knife or any other small knife with a blade less than 1.5” in length;
• d. a razor, box cutter, chain, or any other object used in a way that threatens or inflicts bodily injury to another person;
• e. a stun gun;
• f. ammunition;
• g. an air gun or BB gun;
• h. fireworks of any kind, smoke or stink bombs, or any other pyrotechnic or explosive device;
• i. mace or pepper spray;
• j. matches or a lighter;
• k. tobacco products, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and any component, part, or accessory for an e-cigarette device or accessory to a vapor product; or
• l. any articles not generally considered to be weapons, including school supplies, when the principal or designee determines that a danger exists.
• 48. Possessing or selling look-alike drugs or items attempted to be passed off as drugs or contraband.
• 49. Possessing or selling seeds or pieces of marijuana in less than a usable amount.
• 50. Possessing or using alcohol.
• 51. Possessing, selling, distributing, or being under the influence of inhalants.
• 52. Possessing, selling, distributing, or being under the influence of a simulated controlled substance.
• 53. Possessing, smoking, or using tobacco products and/or e-cigarettes at school or a school-related or school-sanctioned activity on or off school property.
• 54. Possessing, using, giving, or selling paraphernalia related to any prohibited substance, including illegal, prescription, and over-the-counter drugs.
• 55. Possession, use, transfer or exhibition of any firearm, handgun, improvised explosive device, location-restricted knife, club, or any other prohibited weapon or harmful object (as determined by LTS).
• 56. Public lewdness.
• 57. Releasing or threatening to release “intimate visual material” of a minor or a student who is 18 years of age or older without the student’s consent.
• 58. Required registration as a sex offender.
• 59. Selling, giving, or delivering to another person or possessing, using, or being under the influence of marijuana, a controlled substance, a cannabidiol (CBD) substance, a dangerous drug, or an alcoholic beverage.
• 60. Sending or distributing sexually suggestive, nude, or partially nude photographs and/or sexually explicit messages via text message, social media applications, or other methods of electronic delivery while at school, or while away from school if the conduct creates a substantial disruption to the school environment.
• 61. Sending or posting electronic messages that are abusive, obscene, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, damaging to another’s reputation, or illegal, including conduct occurring off school property if the conduct causes a substantial disruption to the educational environment.
• 62. Setting or attempting to set fire on school property.
• 63. Sexual abuse of a young child or children.
• 64. Sexual assault.
• 65. Stealing from students, staff, or LTS.
• 66. Targeting another individual for bodily harm.
• 67. Use, exhibition, or possession of a hand instrument designed to cut or stab another by being thrown, including but not limited to a dagger; dirk; stiletto; poniard; bowie knife; sword; spear; switchblade; assisted-open knife (regardless of length); or as otherwise defined by Board of Director’s policy.
• 68. Use, exhibition, or possession of a knife with a blade more than 1.5” in length, including but not limited to switchblade knives or any other knife not defined as a location-restricted knife.
• 69. Vandalism or conduct constituting criminal mischief with respect to school facilities or property.
• 70. Violating the terms and conditions of a student behavior contract.
• 71. Violating LTS’s computer use policies, rules, or agreements, such as the Student Acceptable Use policy, and including conduct involving but not limited to the following:
• a. Attempting to access or circumvent passwords or other security-related information of LTS or its students or employees, and uploading or creating computer viruses, including such conduct off school property if the conduct causes a substantial disruption to the educational environment.
• b. Attempting to alter, destroy, or disable LTS computer equipment, LTS data, the data of others, or other networks connected to the LTS system, including conduct occurring off school property if the conduct causes a substantial disruption of the educational environment.
• c. Using the Internet or other electronic communications to threaten LTS students, employees, or volunteers, including conduct occurring off school property if the conduct causes a substantial disruption to the educational environment.
• d. Sending or posting electronic messages that are abusive, obscene, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, damaging to another’s reputation, or illegal, including conduct occurring off school property if the conduct causes a substantial disruption to the educational environment.
• e. Using e-mail or websites at school to encourage illegal behavior or threaten school safety.
• 72. Any discretionary or mandatory expulsion violation under Texas Education Code, Chapter 37.

Disciplinary Consequences (may not necessarily be followed in order, and progressive disciplinary measures are not required)

• 1. Out-of-school suspension.
• 2. Expulsion.
• 3. Any applicable consequence or management techniques listed.