How many disciplinary actions does it take for a Broward County Public Schools teacher to be dismissed? 

It looks like the answer is at least more than three. 

Blanche Ely High School teacher Leslie Rainer will go before the Broward County Public School Board on Tuesday morning to face claims of inappropriate conduct toward a Haitian student. 

But Local 10 has learned this is the third time she's been reprimanded for actions and conduct, particularly toward students of Haitian descent, that the superintendent has labeled immoral, incompetent and even, "sufficiently notorious to bring the Respondent and/or the education profession into public disgrace." 

The superintendent is recommending Rainer be suspended without pay for three days and participate in diversity training. 

Local 10's Christina Vazquez has requested information on what the Broward County Public School's policy or guidelines are regarding the criteria the Board uses in deciding when to dismiss a teacher. 

How many strikes does a teacher get? Do they even have a policy? 

A spokeswoman for the District said they will only respond to Vazquez’s questions in writing and that no on-camera interviews will be granted. They said there was no one available, even though as of 12:30 p.m., Vazquez had been sitting in the lobby, just a short elevator ride away. 

According to the School Board's agenda, the latest incident involving Rainer was caught on video. Local 10 is also waiting on a copy of that video. 

In his Petition for Formal Proceedings, Superintendent Robert Runcie wrote that in May, Rainer "engaged in inappropriate conduct by pointing a pointer in a Haitian student's face in a threatening manner and making the statement, ‘look little chocolate boy.’ Rainer also told the student, P.S., that he was ‘chocolate that nobody wanted.’ Rainer has also screamed at P.S. to ‘shut up.’ P.S. recorded Rainer on video pointing the pointer at him and making the statement, ‘You got one time, chocolate,’ with the classroom subsequently erupting in laughter." 

Rainer told Local 10's Sasha Andrade that this is all a misunderstanding, that she was referring to actual chocolate candies on her desk. 

But as the superintendent pointed out, this is not the first time Rainer has been in trouble for making comments the administration felt were inappropriate. 

In fact, Runcie wrote, "By way of background, Respondent has had a history of inappropriate conduct towards her part-Haitian, minority descent students. Respondent made a statement to a student that, ‘I wish they would put you in a boat and send you back where you came from,’” and that she “told a student to stand in a corner near the garbage can because, ‘that's where he belongs’ and entertained inappropriate discuss of a religious nature with students." 

Those incidents happened in December 2008 and April 2011. 

In a disciplinary letter sent to Rainer in April, the language is stern. She was told, “Let this correspondence serve as a reprimand that any future violation of the Code of Ethics ... will result in a recommendation for further disciplinary action up to and including termination." 

But at Tuesday's meeting, the superintendent is only asking the Board to consider a three-day unpaid suspension. 

Jean-Robert Lafortune, president of the Haitian-American Grassroots Organization, fears Rainer may be an example of a broader issue. He feels there is a rift between African-Americans and Haitian-Americans and said he's seen this sort of discrimination before. He is now considering attending Tuesday morning's School Board meeting. 

The superintendent also wrote in his petition that Rainer's actions "constitute repeated failure on the part of Respondent to communicate with and relate to children in the classroom, to such an extent that pupils are deprived of minimum educational experience."