FIHS Honor Code

HONOR CODE

Fountain Inn High School is dedicated to creating an academic environment that promotes honesty and rewards genuine achievement. Academic dishonesty limits our school’s ability to create such an environment. The Fury Honor Code is designed to promote student responsibility and honesty.   Students pledge not to practice any form of academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty includes any action that gives a student(s) an unfair advantage in academics. Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to the following:

• Copying someone else’s class work, homework, quizzes, tests and/or other graded assignments/assessments. (This includes copying work from another student’s computer screen)

• Giving another student work to copy.

• Giving to, or receiving from another student, information about a quiz, test or other assessment which that student has not yet taken.

• Using unauthorized test aids such as “cheat sheets”, calculators, etc. This includes pulling up any unauthorized information on a computer or PED during an assessment.

• Using electronic devices without teacher permission to gain an unfair academic advantage. (Including but not limited to cell phones, computers, laptops, tablets, and MP3 players.)

• Accessing teacher or other school personnel files or documents without permission.

• Submitting work created by someone besides themselves.

• Changing a grade by tampering with computer records.

• Trying to gain an unfair advantage over other students.

*** Students will often be encouraged by teachers to work collaboratively on assignments. Legitimate collaboration is not gaining an unfair advantage over other students.

In order to be well prepared for post-secondary educational opportunities, students must understand how to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism is not only academic dishonesty but in many cases is a violation of copyright law:  The definition of Plagiarism is:

 “An act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the presentation of that author's work as one's own, by not crediting the original source”.

 In the Fury Honor Code plagiarism includes but is not limited to:

• Presenting as your own work the opinions, sequence of ideas, the arrangement of content and pattern of thought without crediting the original source. 

• Using material from the internet (copying and pasting) without crediting the original source.

• Submitting the work, ideas, patterns of ideas etc. of anyone other than yourself without crediting the original source of that information.

The Fury Honor Code requires students to pledge that they will not violate the Honor Code.  Students are expected to be truthful when they pledge.  Being untruthful includes but is not limited to:

• Not being truthful when being asked about a possible honor pledge violation

• Forging a signature 

• Knowingly helping a student violate any part of the Fury Honor Code

Statement of Understanding:

At the beginning of each school year students will sign a statement that indicates they understand the Fury Honor Code.