Academic Integrity

All students are expected to be honest and to display a high standard of integrity in the preparation and presentation of work for credit in all classes. The attempt of any student to present as his/her own work such work not honestly performed will be regarded as a serious offense which may subject the offender to a grading penalty and/or disciplinary action. Teachers will contact the parents of any student who is found to be in violation of this policy and submit a discipline referral to administration. The teacher and administration need to confer on the situation. In most instances, one or more of the following will occur: student make-up the work in a different format, student receives a zero for the assignment, student serves detention.

1. Cheating - Dishonesty of any kind on a test or examination, written assignment, or project, illegal possession of test or examination questions, the use of unauthorized notes during a test or examination, obtaining or giving information about a test or examination from or to another student, assisting others to cheat or altering grade records are instances of cheating.

2. Plagiarism - Offering the work of another as one’s own work without proper acknowledgment is plagiarism; therefore, any student who fails to give credit for quotations or essentially identical material taken from books, encyclopedias, magazines, internet sources, and other reference works or from the themes, reports or other writings of a fellow student is guilty of plagiarism.

Updated: 12/16/2019