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Honor Code

Honor Code

CYPRESS RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL HONOR CODE

All students are expected to adhere to the highest standards of personal integrity in their academic work. Work that is presented for credit must be original. Please use the following definitions to help you decide what is acceptable:

CHEATING: Cheating is defined as using dishonest methods to gain or provide an advantage. This includes utilizing any kind of secretive means on quizzes, tests, papers, homework, daily assignments or group work.

PLAGIARISM: Plagiarism is defined as stealing and passing off the ideas and words of another as one’s own, using a created production without crediting the source, or committing literary theft.

For example, turning in a paper retrieved from an Internet source (either free or for a fee) or including information, images, or music from an encyclopedia, book, textbook, website, database, etc. without citation is plagiarism. A paper is considered plagiarized if any part of it is taken from another source without proper citation. Adapted from John Hersey High School.

 

VIOLATIONS INCLUDE (BUT MAY NOT BE LIMITED TO):

  • copying or allowing someone to copy papers, worksheets, reading guides, etc.

  • looking on another’s test or quiz

  • letting another student look on a test or quiz

  • passing answers to other students in another class

  • using secretive methods of giving answers to a test or quiz (e. g. crib notes, cell phones, nonverbal communication)

  • taking information from another source that is not properly attributed (including taking work from another student’s personal drive)

  • working with others on an assignment that was meant to be done by individuals

  • letting another student use your paper or disk to generate his or her paper

  • taking any part of a document from the Internet, other publications, or other students

  • using any part of a publication such as Cliff’s Notes/Spark Notes

  • submitting work produced by artificial intelligence (AI) as your own

  • taking any part of a test to use or to give to others

  • using technology to copy and distribute assessment questions and/or answers

CONSEQUENCES: Students who are caught cheating, copying, or plagiarizing will receive either an academic or a disciplinary consequence at the teacher’s discretion. A record of the incident will be placed in the student’s permanent file regardless of the discipline consequence.

 

WHEN IN DOUBT: Check with your teacher.