SHS Honesty Policy

Summit High School handbook (pg.24):

Cheating/Plagiarism Students are expected to be honest. No form of cheating is acceptable. Whether a student is cheating alone or collaborating with others to cheat, the results are harmful to those involved and to the entire school community. Cheating includes, but is not limited to stealing, copying homework or other assignments, or providing answers on any quiz, exam, report or essay; changing grades wherever they are recorded; using a calculator or other electronic device to store data or graphics for a test; stealing another student's work and passing it off as your own; or copying text without documentation from any published or Internet source (see below). Students who store school assignments on electronic devices must take responsibility for the security of their own work. Allowing or providing the opportunity for other students to access one’s electronic files containing schoolwork will be considered cheating. When the teacher or administrator has determined that cheating has occurred, they will discuss the incident with the student and review the school policy. The teacher will then contact the student’s parent(s) or guardian to arrange a conference. The teacher and the assistant principal will determine the extent of cheating and the loss of credit. The assistant principal will record the incident and students with repeated cheating violations shall face additional disciplinary action, including loss of credit. All student work submitted for grading or publication must be the work of the student or should cite the source of the material. This includes materials from print publications as well as those from electronic sources. The Summit Public Schools Acceptable Use Policy describes the responsibility of students in the use of school networks and the consequences for misuse of these privileges. The procedure for citing other sources will be provided as part of the assignment. The school media specialists can also provide information about citing sources. Students who copy sources without citing them or use someone else’s materials will receive no credit for the plagiarized work.