VHS Academic Integrity Policy
Academic integrity is founded on the principles of respect for knowledge, truth, scholarship and
acting with honesty. Representing someone else’s work as your own is dishonest. It compromises
your integrity and diminishes what we stand for as a school community. We believe that your success
is dependent on your efforts. Your work represents what you can and can not do. Venice High School
is intolerant of scholastic dishonesty.
Cheating includes, but is in no way limited to the following:
● Copying others’ homework and claiming it as your own.
● Allowing someone to copy your work.
● Looking on another’s test or quiz or letting another student look on a test or quiz.
● Reporting to other students what is on a test or quiz, including providing questions or answers.
● Writing answers on any part of the body, clothing etc.
● Asking for assistance or copying answers during any type of assessment.
● Doing work on computers and making multiple copies to distribute to others.
● Plagarism, i.e. copying verbatim a reference or internet source without giving credit.
● Cutting and pasting information from the internet.
● Programming answers to a test/quiz into cell phones, calculators and/or other technology.
● Other instances may arise that are considered dishonest and will be subject to the same
consequences.
Consequences:
Consequences will be cumulative over the entire four (4) years at VHS and all classes.
Example:
Student cheats in a 9th grade math class. This is the first offense.
Next time student cheats is in 10th grade Spanish class. This is the second offense.
The third offense might be senior year when the same student cheats in Chemistry. The student will
fail the quarter in Chemistry with a 59% or lower earned average.
1st Offense:
Zero on assignment/test/quiz/project, etc.
Referral to administrator. Documentation on file in the front office.
Teacher contacts parent.
2nd Offense:
Zero on assignment/test/quiz/project, etc.
If you are in National Honor Society, you will be released.
You will no longer be considered for National Honor Society.
Parent conference.
Discipline referral and documentation on file in the front office.
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3rd Offense:
Automatic failure for the quarter in the current class that you cheated. A 59% will be given to the
student unless earned average is lower.
Discipline referral and documentation on file in the front office.
Parent conference.
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TEACHER RESPONSIBILITY
Individual teachers will provide on their fact sheets the guidelines as to what is or is not cheating
within their courses.
Teacher will write a referral and call parent.
Administrator will check first to see if the student has a previous cheating infraction on file.
Administrator will inform teacher of results.
We will use regular discipline referral forms.
This policy will be on our website
This policy will be in the students’ agenda book