Academic Honesty and Cheating

A student must respect and acknowledge the research and ideas of others in their work and to meet the regulations governing any work required by the teacher or teacher’s substitute. Students are expected to do their own work. Students are not allowed to copy another individual’s work, ideas, paper, or other assignments that are used for assessment of grading. Any student who misrepresents their work or collaborates in the misrepresentation of another’s work as their own has committed a serious violation of this code.  Students are expected to correctly document the source of any information by crediting the source when citing specific materials, whether printed or distributed by electronic or other media.  If a student has been involved in an incident in which he/she has cheated, copied, plagiarized, or otherwise violated academic honesty, the teacher will bring this incident to the administration as soon as possible.  The student and parent will be informed that a zero will be given for the work.  Conversations and/or meetings may take place with some or all of the following people, administration, guidance counselor, teacher, student and parent, to formulate a plan of action that may include disciplinary action. Repeat academic integrity issues could result in additional sanctions, including up to failure of a course or suspension. 

Artificial Intelligence or “AI” tools, particularly ones that support text generation, can create content that mimics human writing styles and produces seemingly original material. These tools, while they can be beneficial for productivity and creativity, can also inadvertently facilitate plagiarism if misused. Use of ChatGPT (or related tools) may be permitted in a class and on a teacher specific basis. When a teacher gives explicit permission for use of AI it is required that the use be appropriately cited. Failure to cite use of AI, or use of AI on assignments or in classes where use has not been explicitly approved, constitutes a violation of our school’s academic dishonesty policy.