FLAGS Academic Honesty Contract
The principle of honesty must be upheld if the integrity of student writing, assignments, projects and testing is to be maintained by the academic community. Hilltop Middle School expects both teachers and students to honor this principle and thus protect the fairness of student grading. For students, all homework, tests, quizzes, long-term projects and other forms of student work (including any work created through computer resources), will be done by the student to whom it is assigned, without copying the work of another student or another person. No student shall engage in any activity that involves cheating, plagiarism (the taking of ideas or writing from another and passing them off as one's own), or copying another student's homework or tests or allowing another student to copy his or her work or tests. No student shall engage in activity for the purpose of receiving a grade by means other than honest work.
Examples of Academic Dishonesty
- Directly copying someone else's work.
- Allowing someone to copy your work.
- Looking at someone else's iPad for answers.
- Allowing someone to look at your iPad for answers.
- Taking a screenshot of work and emailing it to someone else.
- Refusing to participate during group work, in order to just get answers.
- Submitting other's answers as your own.
- Using translating websites and applications to compose your own work.
- Doing someone else's homework.
- Having someone else fo your homework.
- Copying/pasting text from an outside source.
- Talking during a test or quiz.
- Sharing answers during a test or quiz.
- Using technology in an unauthorized manner.
Examples of Academic Honesty: