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This policy reinforces our goal to create critical thinkers who can evaluate information and responsibly use educational tools to support their learning. All student work must be your own.

 

What constitutes a violation? – not allowed or permitted:

  • Plagiarism - copying, developing content with Artificial Intelligence tools without citing the source and claiming it as your own
  • heating using notes or other aids without permission
  • Copying from another student or resource on exams, classwork or homework
  • Allowing another student to copy your work or cheat from you
  • Using any AI tool without permission from your teacher

 

NOTE:

Academic integrity violations include on state mandated or advanced placement exams. Students must adhere to all classroom practices and procedures teachers have in place ( i.e. all backpacks placed in front of the classroom) to reinforce testing integrity or be subject to receiving no credit if violated. If you have questions about AI tools, ask your teacher what’s allowable in their class prior to its use.

 

NOTE: Depending on the egregiousness of the violation, if a first offence, progressive consequences may be bypassed and the student may receive more serious consequences.  

  

ACADEMIC INGETRITY VIOLATIONS

Violations fall in one of two categories MAJOR or MINOR VIOLATIONS.

 

MAJOR VIOLATIONS: Any assignment or assessment that makes up to 10% or higher of a grade. These are formative or summative assessments, ELA process papers and other large projects and assignments. This category also includes all district-, district- and school-mandated testing including (but not limited to) AP tests, ACTs, IABs, etc. NOTE: a teacher may determine an assignment/assessment worth less than 10% as MAJOR. Students will be informed.

 

 MINOR VIOLATIONS: Any other assignment or assessment that does not meet the above requirement. Minor violations include daily homework, minor group projects or classwork, annotations, notetaking, etc. 

  

STUDENT CONSEQUENCES

 

A three-tier system will be used to administer consequences to students. However, for ALL VIOLATIONS, students will receive a zero on the assignment/assessment with no opportunity for make-up unless the teacher allows it.

  

TIER 1 – MINOR VIOLATIONS

Students who have committed minor violations will be subject to the following:

    • Incident logged in the contact log section of MiSIS
    • Consequences like lunchtime reflection, campus beautification, escalating with each incident

 

TIER 2 – MULTIPLE MINOR VIOLATIONS or ONE MAJOR VIOLATION

Students who commit three or more minor violations, or one major violation will be subject to the following:

    • Students will be flagged in MiSIS
    • Students overall grade in the course may be reduced by 10%
    • Students may be suspended from sports, clubs or extra-curricular activities
    • Students who are in a specialty elective — Yearbook, Leadership, College Peer Counseling, RJ, Peer Helping, etc. — may be removed the following year and may be refused re-entry the year after (teacher’s discretion)
    • After-school Detention assignment
    • Individualized Academic Integrity Contract signed by student and parent
    • Students may lose additional privileges such as Homecoming, Prom, Graduation/Culmination if it applies

 

TIER 3 – MULTIPLE MAJOR VIOLATIONS

    • Previous unused Tier 2 consequences may be applied
    • Counselor notes detailing the violations will be put into the Naviance system available for colleges and universities to see
    • Letters of recommendation provided by teachers may be affected. It is teacher’s discretion to write a LOR.

 

APPEALS PROCESS

Students may appeal the decision. The case will be heard by a panel consisting of Administrator, Dean, Counselor and Teacher.

 

EXAMPLES of Academic Integrity VIOLATIONS and POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES

               Infractions

              Possible Consequences

Providing or Copying of homework or class work

 

MINOR VIOLATIONS

·         Zero on assignment

·         Lunch Reflection or campus beautification

·         Notification of Counselor

·         Incident logged in the contact log section of MiSIS

·         Plagiarizing

·         Cheating on an exam or a major assignment

·         Purchasing assignment or paper from another student or on-line source –

·         Using AI tools to create/write your assignments

MAJOR VIOLATIONS

·         Zero on assignment  - no retake - maximum 10% point  drop on final grade per offense

·         Parent Notification of after-school Detention assignment

·         Notification of Counselor

·         Incident logged in the contact log section of MiSIS

·         Parent, student, teacher, counselor conference

·         Individualized Academic Integrity Contract signed by student and parent

 

Questions regarding this policy may be directed to Marlon Shows, Dean (323) 549-5900