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CATEGORY BESO: Behaviors that Endanger Self or Others
These behaviors endanger the health, safety, or welfare of either the student or others in the school community. Behaviors that
rise to this level of severity are often complex. While they are indicative of poor decision-making skills, students who exhibit
these behaviors may also have developmental needs in the other social-emotional competencies.
BESO
BEHAVIOR
ELEMENTARY
SECONDARY
BESO14
Threatening, intimidating, or instigating violence, injury or harm to another
student(s) or other(s) in writing (
LEVEL 4
LEVEL 4
BESO15
Using an object not generally considered to be a weapon to threaten or attempt to
injure school personnel (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
BESO16
Using an object not generally considered to be a weapon to threaten or attempt to
injure students or others (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
BESO17
Bomb threat – Making a bomb threat (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
BESO18
A crime in the community where the student was charged with an offense relating
to the Commonwealth's laws, which is not covered by any other behavior code, but
required to be disclosed to the superintendent of the school division pursuant to
§16.1-260(G)
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
CATEGORY PD: Persistently Dangerous
Behaviors described in the Virginia’s Unsafe School Choice Option Policy required by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of
2015.
PD
BEHAVIOR
ELEMENTARY
SECONDARY
PD1
Homicide - Firearm (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PD2
Homicide – Other Weapon (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PD3
Sexual Assault (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PD4
Attempted Sexual Assault (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PD5
Use of a Bomb (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PD6
Assault with Firearm or Weapon (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PD7
Actual or Attempted Robbery (
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 5
PK-3: State law prohibits, except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, and certain criminal acts, students in preschool through grade three from being
suspended for more than three school days or expelled from attendance at school unless (i) the offense involves physical harm or credible threat of physical
harm to others or (ii) the local school board or the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances exist, as defined by the
Department of Education.
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