ACADEMIC HONOR CODE FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS - LEXINGTON ONE
Middle and high school students in Lexington School District One are encouraged to maintain high standards of academic integrity and honesty. In an effort to clarify expectations, the following list provides examples of unacceptable acts of cheating.
• Looking on someone else’s paper during a quiz, test or exam.
• Revealing items to someone who has not taken a quiz, test or exam.
• Copying from others on assignments designated as independent work (homework, worksheets, essays, research papers, test answers and lab reports).
• Referring to unauthorized notes and materials during a quiz, test or exam.
• Positioning your paper into viewing range of another student during a quiz, test or exam.
• Using unauthorized technological devices to complete or disseminate answers during quiz, test or exam. Using technological devices to secure work from another student’s project.
• Obtaining an unauthorized copy of a quiz, test or exam.
• Plagiarizing a paper or using a paper written by another person (citation errors are handled during the writing process by classroom teachers) and plagiarizing work from another student’s project.
Teachers and administrators will treat cheating as a very serious matter. Teachers will confer with the appropriate administrator to review the evidence of any misconduct. All substantiated infractions will result in the grade being affected. Parents will be notified. A zero will be recorded for the assignment, and there will be no opportunity for make-up work.