District Wide Grading Policy
Weighted Grades: Major grades are weighted at 40% and Minor grades are weighted at 60%.
Re-teach/Redo: Per district policy, each student will be provided a reasonable and fair opportunity to retake or redo an examination/class assignment for which the student received a failing grade.
Late Work: Students who fail to turn in their work on time face a reduced grade. We want students to learn to be responsible for managing deadlines and completing work on time. For a missing assignment, students have one week from the due date to turn it in and will receive the appropriate point deduction:
· 6th Grade will receive a 10 point deduction
· 7th Grade will receive a 15 point deduction
· 8th Grade will receive a 20 point deduction
Any assignment turned in after one week may receive no grade higher than a 70.
Academic Dishonesty can be described as:
Cheating — Copying another's work either paper or electronic, such as homework, class work, or answers to a test. Cheating is also using the same work for more than one assignment without both of the involved teachers' permission.
Collusion — Allowing someone else to copy or cheat off of your work. Passing information related to a test.
Duplicating - copying someone else's file or assignment in part or in whole.
Plagiarism — the representation of the ideas or work (written work, works of art, such as music, film, theater, dance, and visual arts) of another person as the (student's) own, without acknowledging the original author or creator. l
Paraphrasing — using an author's ideas by rewording or rearranging the author's original words. Paraphrased materials still require the student to acknowledge the source.