Handbooks and Policies

The School expects all employees and non-employees to be treated and to treat others with respect. The aim is to provide a working environment free from unlawful harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form, which may affect the dignity of the individual or the individual’s ability to perform their job.

The School’s policy prohibits sexual harassment and harassment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, military status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance or regulation.

The School’s policy against unlawful harassment applies to all persons involved in the operation of the school and prohibits unlawful harassment by or toward any employee of the school, including administration, faculty, and staff as well as supervisors and co-workers. The school will also take all reasonable steps to prevent or eliminate harassment by or toward non-employees, including students, guests, visitors, vendors, suppliers, donors, volunteers, and anyone else who may have job-related contact with our School.

Harassment, including sexual harassment, is verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of her or his race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or membership in any other class protected by applicable laws, that may be offensive to others, create an offensive, intimidating or hostile working environment, or interfere with another employee’s or non-employee’s work performance. Examples of unlawful harassment include, but are not limited to:

• Verbal conduct such as epithets, derogatory jokes or comments, slurs, or unwanted sexual advances, invitations, or comments;

• Visual conduct such as derogatory and/or sexually oriented posters, photography, cartoons, drawings, or gestures;

• Physical conduct such as assault, unwanted touching, blocking normal movement or interfering with work because of sex, race, or any other protected basis;

• Threats and demands to submit to sexual requests as a condition of continued employment or to avoid some other loss and offers of employment benefits in return for sexual favors;

• Acts or jokes that are hostile or demeaning with regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or sexual orientation;

• Threatening, intimidating or hostile acts that relate to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or sexual orientation;

• Written or graphic material that denigrates, ridicules or shows hostility toward an individual or group because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or sexual orientation;

• Retaliation for having reported or threatened to report harassment.

This policy applies to all phases of interaction (whether on- or off-campus, and whether it occurs during or after regular School hours), including, but not limited to, recruiting, testing, hiring, upgrading, promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff, termination, rates of pay, benefits, and selection for training.