The Board of Education is committed to providing a respectful, inclusive, and safe learning environment that protects students from discrimination, harassment, intimidation, bullying, and other conduct motivated by hate.

 “Hate speech” is defined as abusive, threatening, insulting, harassing or intimidating speech, writing or symbols directed or targeted at another individual or group of individuals, which (1) infringes on their right to be secure or left alone at school; and (2) which expresses prejudice against a particular group motivated by hostility towards the other individual’s real or perceived characteristics, including, but not limited to, race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigrant status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55. 

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