ACADEMIC

1. ACADEMIC HONESTY

2. REASONS STUDENTS CHEAT: • Lack of motivation to work study or work hard. • Pressure from parents and teachers to get good grades. • Cutting and pasting information from electronic sources is easy. • A mistaken belief that everything on the Internet is free for the taking. • Lack of understanding about what plagiarism is and how to properly reference sources. • Fear of falling behind because “everyone else” is cheating – and getting good grades as a result. • Unable to keep up with the heavy workload. • Belief that “getting it done and “getting it right” are valued more that original thoughts or ideas.”

3. POWAY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT The Governing Board (Board of Education) believes that academic honesty and personal integrity are fundamental components of a student’s educational experience. The Board expects that students will demonstrate acts of academic honesty at all times and will not engage in acts of:·cheating on tests·fabrication/falsification·forgery·unauthorized collaboration·plagiarism·theft/alteration of materials or equipment

4. Cheating on tests:Any giving or receiving of information or answers (either verbally, in writing, or using an electronic device) relating to an examination, test, or quiz, without permission from the teacher. Fabrication/falsification:Giving untrue or false data, information, or facts in an academic exercise. Forgery: Writing or giving false or misleading information by writing someone else’s signature. (student writes parent’s signature)

5. Unauthorized Collaboration:Students working on an assignment together without permission from the teacher. (copying / sharing / giving homework, tests, etc., copying projects) Theft or Alteration of Materials or Equipment: If you take, hide, or change any student or teacher materials, work , papers, computer settings, or equipment. Plagiarism:Using someone else’s ideas, words, or work and saying they were all your ideas or work. (Taking credit for someone else’s work.)

6. Examples: • Copying and pasting information and claiming it as your own work. • Taking someone else’s work, test, project from a classroom basket, erasing the name and writing in your name, then claiming it as your own work. • Saying you are someone else and taking a test as that person. • Printing out multiple copies of a document and different students write their names on them claiming it as their own work. • Sharing test questions and answers. • Giving someone else information through a disk, email, instant message, etc. • Misuse of published materials, Internet information.

7. - The Internet, and other on-line resources provided are to be used to support the instructional program and further student learning. - Users of the District’s computing and network resources are required to use such resources responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with usage agreements outlined in District policy.

8. - Disciplinary actions for violations of the rules of the academic honesty policy may range in severity and will be appropriate to the situation. Disciplinary actions include, but are not limited to, the following: • expulsion • suspension • dropped from the class • no credit All ethics violations are cumulative and do not start over with the new school year.

9. Disciplinary Guidelines: 1st offense: - Teacher contacts parent - Referral to Assistant Principal - Automatic zero on assignment - Loss of school activity - Unsatisfactory in citizenship for that grading period. 2nd offense: - Teacher contacts parent - Referral to Assistant Principal - Automatic zero on assignment - Loss of school activity - Unsatisfactory in citizenship for remainder of that grading period.

10. 3rd offense: - Teacher contacts parent - Referral to Assistant Principal - Automatic zero on assignment - Loss of school activity - Unsatisfactory in citizenship for remainder of that grading period. - Parent-teacher conference with administrator

11. Plagiarism ~Using someone else’s ideas, words, or work and saying they were all your ideas or work. ~Taking credit for someone else’s work and not acknowledging the source of that information.

12. AVOID PLAGIARISM Give credit whenever you use another person’s: • idea, opinion, theory, facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, diagrams, charts, illustrations, and pictures • quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words • information gained through interviewing another person

13. Give credit - • When using or referring to somebody else’s words or ideas from a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium. • When you copy the exact words or a "unique phrase" from somewhere. • When you use ideas that others have given you in conversations or over email.

14. Give credit whenever you use any pieces of information that are NOT common knowledge. • Common knowledge: facts that can be found in numerous places and are likely to be known by a lot of people. • Same information is undocumented in at least five other sources. • A person could easily find the information with general reference sources. • EXAMPLE: George W. Bush was sworn into office January 20, 2001.

15. Questions? Are you unsure? Meet with your teacher.

16. Better to fail with honor than succeed by fraud.-SophoclesBorn in 495 B.C., became one of the great playwrights of the golden age.