Academic Honesty Policies

From the JMS Student Handbook: 

 

Academic Honesty

Academic honesty is defined as students doing their own work; Assignments, projects, experiments, book reports, research papers, etc. must be completed by the students.

While students are strongly encouraged to seek assistance from parents, private tutors, teachers, friends, and other outside resources, students must turn in work as their own.

Students may be considered to be cheating if involved in any of the following:

• Roving eyes in a test situation
• Using “cheat” sheets or “crib” notes
• Open books during tests
• Talking during a test
• Plagiarism (copying other work and using it as your own)
• Internet downloads of materials and turned in as your own
• Text messaging answers to others
• Any other observed cheating

Consequences for cheating can include a grade of F on work involved, parent contact, lowering of citizenship grade, discipline referral to Assistant Principal’s office, restriction from co-curricular activities, and/or suspension.