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Academic Honesty

Glendale Unified School District values honesty and academic integrity; therefore, we pledge to help students understand these values and their importance. When cheating does occur, we will follow a progressive discipline system.

Cheating includes but is not limited to (adapted from The School for Ethical Education-Integrity Works!-www.ethicsed.org):

  •  Unpermitted collaboration on assigned work, or work submitted by any student, including but not limited to papers, projects, products, lab reports, other reports, and homework
  •  Using unauthorized materials (electronically on calculators or cell phones or crib notes) to complete an examination or assignment
  •  Plagiarism, presenting another person’s work as one’s own without assigning proper credit
  •  Having another individual take a test or prepare an assignment, or assist in the test or assignment without approval
  •  Copying from others during a test, examinations, quiz or homework
  •  Unauthorized exchange of information during a test or while others are taking a test
  •  Copying parts of an exam and giving it to other students who have to take the test
  •  Unauthorized prior knowledge and/or use of tests, quizzes, midterms, finals, or other assignments
  •  Changing, altering, or being an accessory to changing or altering a grade on a test, assignment, or project
  •  Violating any other specific procedures specified by the teacher
  • Academic honesty starts with a conversation between the student and teacher. If cheating occurred, there is a discussion with the teacher and the student regardless if it is on a homework assignment, classwork, an essay, quiz, test, final, project or on an electronic device. The student is sent to the office to be counseled and the incident documented using the following progressive discipline actions:

FIRST OFFENSE

  1. No credit will be earned on the assignment
  2. Referral to the office to document cheating incident
  3. Teacher contact parent/guardian

SECOND OFFENSE

  1. No credit will be earned on the assignment
  2. Student referred to the office for assignment of ATS
  3. Teacher notifies parent/ guardian through an in-person parent-teacher conference
  4. Student ineligible to earn extra credit points in the course
  5. “U” for citizenship on the next report card with comment “caught cheating” in the report card

THIRD OFFENSE

  1. No credit will be earned on the assignment
  2. Student referred to the office for 1-day suspension
  3. Administrator calls parent/ guardian
  4. Student ineligible for CJSF membership for one semester
  5. Students ineligible to earn extra credit points in the course
  6. “U” for citizenship on the next report card with comment “caught cheating” in the report card

NOTE: At the administrator’s discretion the consequences may begin at any step.