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© Students who become emotionally upset should go to the Guidance Office or to the School Nurse for help.
© If an emergency develops that requires the student to leave, the student should go to the Principal for permission.
It is important to understand that students must receive written permission from the Middle School Office before leaving campus during school hours (8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. on Wednesdays). Failure to receive written permission before leaving campus will be considered unexcused absences from all classes missed.
Academic Honesty
Trust is perhaps the most essential element in teaching and learning. Only when there is trust can the open exchange of ideas take place between the teacher and the student. Teachers assess students, through homework, tests, and other oral and written exercises, in order to gauge how well the student has understood the concepts or developed the skills being taught. When a student deceives a teacher by using the ideas of another person without citing them, by gaining advanced knowledge of a test or by bringing “cheat sheets” into a test, they undermine the teacher’s ability to help them learn. Ultimately, it is the student who loses out. With this in mind, it is important to both the faculty and the students to protect and maintain a high degree of honesty at our school. By doing so, we can avoid the needless trouble brought about by academic dishonesty in the form of cheating and plagiarism.
Peer pressure can play a significant role in academic dishonesty. The student who shares homework or reveals test questions may think that they are helping out a friend. However, in reality, they are practicing academic dishonesty since they are providing an unfair advantage to one person over the rest of the students in that course.
Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to the following: giving or receiving information on a test, quiz, homework or other evaluation in such a way, that would be considered cheating. This could include: copying from another student, having cheating notes, using a calculator without the teacher’s permission, and gaining advance access to test materials and/or using someone else’s ideas or statements as one’s own without giving credit to the author in such a way that would be considered plagiarism. This could include not giving proper citation in a research paper by crediting the source of information, the copying of another student’s work (i.e. homework assignments) and handing it in as one’s own, the giving of one’s work to another to copy, or any other similar use of another’s work.
A student who becomes aware of cheating or plagiarism by another student should contact the teacher, the Counselor or the Principal. All information received will be kept confidential. The Principal will then investigate the allegation and determine whether an offense has occurred.
Consequences for Academic Dishonesty
The consequences of a first violation are:
© A meeting with the teacher, student, and parents
© A letter to the parents describing the event
© Redoing the assignment honestly during lunch or after school sessions
The consequences of a second violation are:
© A meeting with the teacher, parents, and administrator
© A letter to the parents describing the event
© Redoing the assignment honestly during lunch or after school sessions
© A disciplinary report
The consequences of a third violation are:
© A meeting with the Principal and parents
© A letter to the parents describing the event
© Redoing the assignment honestly during lunch or after school sessions
© The student will be placed on disciplinary probation
If in the judgment of the Principal, in consultation with the Head of School,
