Punishment for students who make indecent gestures toward teachers or blackmail them.

The Ministry of Education has emphasized the need to report to the relevant security authorities in cases of damage to the property of teachers, administrators, or other school staff, the use of inappropriate language toward them, physical assault, blackmail, or the commission of cybercrimes against them.

The ministry clarified that these actions are considered fifth-degree behavioral violations as stipulated in Article “16” of the Student Conduct and Attendance Bylaw for all educational stages regarding educational and administrative staff.

Fifth-degree behavioral problems among students (all educational stages) toward educational and administrative staff:

1- Damaging or stealing the property of teachers, administrators, or other school staff.

2- Making indecent gestures toward teachers, administrators, or other school staff.

3- Physically assaulting teachers, administrators, or other school staff.

4- Blackmailing teachers, administrators, or other school staff.

5- Committing cybercrimes against teachers, administrators, or other school staff.

Corrective educational measures for behavior modification:

* The school administration documents an incident report to record the event.

* The student’s guardian is invited and informed of the student’s problem and the resulting measures.

* Deducting fifteen points from the student’s positive behavior score, while providing opportunities for compensation to modify behavior and restore deducted points at the transferred school, with the guardian notified accordingly.

* The school’s student guidance committee meets immediately after the incident to study the circumstances and details.

* Repairing or replacing what the student damaged, with the guardian notified.

* Apologizing to those who were harmed.

* Submitting the minutes of the guidance committee meeting officially and urgently to the education administration regarding the case.

* Issuing a decision by the education director to transfer the student to another school (for the second and third secondary grades, handling is according to the pathways system), with the student continuing studies until transfer, and seeking the guardian’s opinion on the school to which the student will be transferred. If the guardian does not agree, the student is transferred to the nearest school to their residence.

* Follow-up by the student counselor at the transferred school and the provision of educational services.