I. Appropriate action will be taken to remove or to make special provisions for a grossly disruptive student. Grossly disruptive behavior will include: assault on staff or students, threat(s) or violence, willful disregard of a teacher’s directions, malicious vandalism, possession of weapons of any type, continuing use of profane language or obscene gestures, and instigation of violence or mass disobedience to legitimate directions.

When a teacher sends a grossly disruptive student to the office with appropriate paperwork, the principal or designee will provide oral and/or written feedback to the teacher with regard to present and/or future action concerning the student’s behavior. The teacher may request a conference with the principal or designee and the student’s parent(s), as defined by Florida Statutes, prior to the student being returned to his/her classroom. A grossly disruptive student will not normally be returned to the classroom where he/she exhibited the grossly disruptive behavior until the teacher has received the feedback and a behavior contract is in place.

II. A teacher may remove a student from his/her class whose behavior the teacher determines interferes with the teacher’s ability to effectively communicate with other students in the class or with the ability of the student’s classmates to learn.

III. The principal may not return a student who has been removed by a teacher from the teacher’s class without the teacher’s consent, unless the Placement Review Committee established herein determines that such placement is the best or only available alternative. The teacher and Placement Review Committee must render decisions within five (5) days of the removal of the student from the classroom.

IV. Each school shall establish a Placement Review Committee(s) to determine if a student is to be returned to a teacher’s class after that student has been removed by the teacher and the teacher has withheld consent for that student to be returned to the teacher’s class.

A. Committee membership shall include the following:

1. Two (2) teachers, one selected by the instructional staff of the school and one selected by the teacher who has removed the student.

2. One (1) member of the school staff selected by the principal.

B. A teacher, who removed a student from his/her class and who has withheld consent for the return of that student to his/her class, shall not serve on the committee when the committee makes its decision regarding the return of the student. If the Placement Review Committee’s decision is contrary to the decision of the teacher to withhold consent to the return of the removed student to the teacher’s class, the teacher may appeal the committee’s decision to the district school superintendent.

C. Any teacher who removes twenty-five percent (25%) of his/her total class enrollment shall be required to complete professional development to improve classroom management skills. Any required training under this provision shall be free of cost to the teacher.