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Weston High
School's Academic Integrity Policy
At Weston High School, we strive to
create an environment wherein all act honestly. We believe
it is the right, privilege, and responsibility of each
individual to contribute to and work in an environment of
trust. The following refers to academic policy, however
ethical behavior covers the full range of activities within
the school environment. This policy of Weston High School
prohibits cheating, academic stealing, plagiarizing and
lying.
- Minimum consequence: four hours of
Saturday School, and failing grade of zero to be assigned
for all work related to violations of this policy
- Additional consequences: up to ten
days of suspension.
- All incidents involving violations
of this policy are recorded in a student's personal file.
Cheating encompasses, but is not limited to, the
following:
- Willful giving or receiving of an
unauthorized, unfair, dishonest, or unscrupulous
advantage in school work over other students.
- Attempted cheating.
- Some examples are: deception;
talking or using signs or gestures during a test or quiz;
copying from another student or allowing another student
to copy your work, passing test or quiz information
during a class period to members of another class period
with the same teacher; submission of pre-written
assignments at times when such assignments are supposed
to be written in class; illegally exceeding the time
limits on timed tests, quizzes, or assignments;
unauthorized use of study aids, notes, books, data, or
other information; computer fraud; sabotaging the
projects or experiments of other students.
Academic Stealing is a form of cheating, for example:
- Taking or appropriating without
the right or permission to do so and with the intent to
keep or make use of wrongfully, the school work of
another student or the instructional materials of a
teacher.
- Some examples are: stealing copies
of tests or quizzes; stealing the teacher's edition of a
textbook; stealing another student's homework, notes, or
handouts.
Plagiarizing encompasses, but is not limited to, the
following:
- Presenting as one's own, the works
or the opinions of someone else without proper
acknowledgement.
- Borrowing of the sequence of
ideas, the arrangement of materials, or the pattern of
thought of someone else without proper acknowledgement.
- Some examples are: having a parent
or other person write an essay or do a project which is
then submitted as one's own work; failing to use proper
documentation and /or bibliography.
Lying encompasses, but is not limited to, the following:
- Willful and knowledgeable telling
of an untruth or falsehood as well as any form of deceit,
attempted deception, or fraud in an oral or written
statement.
- Some examples are: lying of
failing to give complete information to a teacher;
forgery on notes or other documents; feigning illness to
gain extra time for tests, quizzes or assignments due.
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