Canyon Hills believes that a sound educational program must insist upon academic honesty.  We expect Canyon Hills’ students to display personal integrity and self-respect.  Students should understand that learning to prepare for a test is as important as the material being covered.  The final value of one’s education is what is learned and not what grade a student receives.  Grades mean little when cheating is accepted.  Assisting someone else to cheat is no different than cheating yourself:

The following actions, but not limited to, are in violation of Canyon Hills’ Academic Honesty Policy:

• Copying from another student’s assignment or test
• Using a “cheat” sheet or other external assistance without teacher consent
• Stealing or borrowing without expressed teacher permission of a test, quiz, and/or other confidential document
• Making a copy, in part or in whole, of a confidential document, including, but not limited to, taking a picture of a test or quiz
• Creating false data for a bibliography
• Watching a video or reading “Cliff Notes” of a literary work in place of reading the piece
• Borrowing a study guide or object with answers and copying them as one’s own work
• Plagiarism: Copying word for word in part or in whole, including, but not limited to, erasing/deleting someone else’s name and substituting it for your own
• Turning in someone else’s work, in part or in whole, including, but not limited to, erasing/deleting someone else’s name and substituting it for your own work
• Unauthorized collaboration: working with another student on a project, assignment, homework test, etc. without expressed permission from the teacher.  This also includes but is not limited to lending or showing your paper and/or assignment to another student for any reason without the expressed permission from the teacher
• Successfully or unsuccessfully attempting to solicit another student in the process of violating Canyon Hills’ Academic Honesty Policy
• In any way attempting to or planning to engage in the process of violating Canyon Hills’ Academic Honesty Policy

 

First Offense:        Student receives “F” (zero credit) grade on the assignment.  Teacher calls the parent(s)/guardian(s) and informs them that the student will be referred to the administration.  Referral to administration.  Administrative detention assigned.  Student receives “N” in both citizenship and/or work habits on trimester report card.

Second Offense:  Student receives “F” on assignment.  Teacher calls the parent(s)/guardian(s) and informs them that the student wi be referred to the administration.  Saturday School assigned.  Parent conference.  Student receives a “U” in citizenship and/or work habits on trimester report card.