Interference or Intimidation by Force or Violence.  It is a gross misdemeanor for any person to interfere by force or violence with any administrator, teacher, classified employee, person under contract with the school or school district, or student of any common school who is in the peaceful discharge or conduct of their duties or studies.  It is also a gross misdemeanor for any person to intimidate by threat of force or violence.  The penalty for both gross misdemeanors is a fine up to $500, imprisonment for not more than six months, or both a fine and imprisonment.

Any such interference by force or violence committed by a student is grounds for immediate suspension or expulsion of the student.

Student Discipline. State law requires school board directors to adopt reasonable written rules regarding student conduct, discipline, and rights in accordance with federal and state law and rules and the Washington State School Director's Association's model policies and procedures related to student discipline. State law and rules address requirements related to emergency removals, suspensions, and expulsions.

The offenses of interference by force or violence and intimidation by threat of force or violence are expanded to include an employee or contractor of a public or private elementary or secondary school, an elementary or secondary student, or an official or volunteer acting as an official for extracurricular athletic activities of elementary or secondary students while that person is in the peaceful discharge or conduct of their duties.

Interference by force or violence is grounds for a public school student's emergency removal. If a public school student interferes during extracurricular athletic activities, the student may be excluded from participating in or attending that activity.

Upon conviction of interference by force or violence, a person, other than a student, must be excluded from entering the school where the crime was committed or from attending the extracurricular athletic activities in which the crime was committed for a period of no less than 12 months and no more than 18 months.