Plagiarism:
Plagiarism shall be defined as the presentation of another’s work – the ideas, arguments, facts or phraseology – as one’s own. Unacknowledged quotation of another’s sentences, phrases, or keywords is plagiarism. Using papers (in whole or parts) from the internet as a student’s own work is plagiarism. |
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The work in question receives a “0” and is recorded as such in the grade book. |
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The student’s parents are informed |
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The student’s school counselor is informed, and the report is placed in a file. This report is destroyed by the counseling director at the end of the year. |
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The student is assigned to read the plagiarism policy and study the term paper writing hand-out. |
| 2nd Offense: |
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The work in question receives a “0” and is recorded as such in the grade book. |
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The student’s parents are informed |
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The student’s school counselor is informed, and the report is placed in a file. This report is destroyed by the counseling director at the end of the year. |
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The administration requests, by certified letter, that the student’s parents attend a meeting with the student, teacher, counselor and principal or his designee. If the parents fail to attend the meeting, the student’s grade for the marking period is withheld and becomes a failing grade two weeks after the end of the marking period.
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Parents are informed and the student receives a failing grade for the course. |
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Cheating:
Cheating may be defined as using someone else’s work as your own, violating the conditions of an assignment, giving another student questions or answers from a test already taken or speaking or using electronic messaging with someone during a test or quiz. |
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The work in question receives a “0” and is recorded as such in the grade book. |
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The student’s parents are informed |
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The student’s school counselor is informed, and the report is placed in a file. This report is destroyed by the counseling director at the end of the year. |
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The student is assigned to read the cheating policy and study the term paper writing hand-out. |
| 2nd Offense: |
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The work in question receives a “0” and is recorded as such in the grade book. |
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The student’s parents are informed |
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The student’s school counselor is informed, and the report is placed in a file. This report is destroyed by the counseling director at the end of the year. |
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The administration requests, by certified letter, that the student’s
parents attend a meeting with the student, teacher, counselor and principal or his designee. If the parents fail to attend the meeting, the student’s grade for the marking period is withheld and becomes a failing grade two weeks after the end of the marking period.
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Parents are informed and the student receives a failing grade for the course. |
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APPEAL PROCESS:
Any student wishing to contest a teacher’s finding may request a meeting with the teacher and team leader. This meeting must be requested in writing within fourteen (14) days of the incident. The copies of the request should be sent to the teacher, school counselor and appropriate administrator. The team leader will refer the student’s case to an appropriate administrator and/or the principal for resolution.
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