Mark Keppel High School

Academic Honesty

Mark Keppel High School

Policy For Preserving Academic Integrity

Mark Keppel High School prides itself with students of high academic standards. It is with this pride that we expect students to conduct themselves in the most honorable and ethical way in achieving these high standards. Therefore, we do not condone nor tolerate any student work that is produced by means other than one’s own initiative and effort.

Violations of Academic Integrity includes but not limited to any of the following:

§ The use of cheat sheets or other unauthorized aides

§ Roving eyes

§ Opening books or notes during testing

§ Talking during testing

§ Copying each others work/disk/flash drive, etc. in any way

§ Stealing exams

§ Altering a teacher’s grades in any way

§ Forging transcripts, reports cards, or signature

§ Plagiarizing papers or projects

§ Taking exams for someone else

§ Hiring others to write papers/projects

§ Submitting and/or altering the work of another as ones’ own

§ Distributing unauthorized test papers or questions

§ Using bribery or blackmail in the pursuit of better grades

§ Use of an electronic device of any kind in any way for any testing situation

§ Violation of testing conditions in any way

Consequences may include any or a combination of the following depending upon the nature, frequency, and the severity of the incident:

Ø Academic Integrity Contract signed, filed, and kept accumulative

for remaining years at MKHS

Ø Parent/Student /teacher conference

Ø Student receives a zero or “F” on the work involved and

citizenship grade will be lowered.

Ø Documentation placed in student’s Discipline File

Ø Saturday Work

Ø Suspension and /or expulsion

Ø Removal of student from course

Ø May negatively impact admission to college’s and universities, the awards of scholarships or letters of recommendations

Ø Restricted from participation in academic organizations or clubs

Teacher’s Responsibility

P Be proactive and preventative

P Actively/diligently circulate and monitor students during testing

P Ascertain facts and evidence then refer all students involved to Student Services for all incidents

P Teacher and Student Services should communicate to establish if there has been prior violations in order to determine consequences

P Teacher must contact parent and arrange conference.

P Lower student’s academic and citizenship grades according to

policy