Verbal Assault, Michigan Public Act

Verbal Assault is defined as:

1. 1. Making a bomb threat or similar threat directed against a school building, school property, or a school-related event
2. Making a verbal threat of serious bodily injury directly to or at a
3. District employee, volunteer, or contractor, which threat creates a well-founded apprehension that the scholar has the apparent ability and means to immediately, or in the immediate future, inflict serious bodily injury on the District employee, volunteer, or contractor if the scholar is not prevented from doing so
4. All Threats will be reported to Law Enforcement Officials and scholars shall be subject to criminal prosecution. 

Michigan Public Act (passed in 1999) prohibits verbal threat against a school and verbal threat/assault of staff. Scholars in Grades 6-12 who make a verbal threat against a school; or commit an act of verbal threat/assault against a District employee, volunteer or contractor on any GRPS property or off-campus location during school-sponsored events, shall be subject to expulsion for up to one-hundred-and-eighty (180) school days. These scholars shall be advised of the process, timelines and their right to request reinstatement. 

Also see Public Acts/State Laws, Due Process item 7, and Special Education.