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 Herndon
High School
CODE OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Our goal at Herndon High School is to promote a fair
and honest learning environment to facilitate academic success.
Resorting to cheating and plagiarism erodes the ability
of students to strive for excellence.
The Honor Code
Students attending Herndon High School are expected
to conduct themselves honorably in pursuit of their education.
Cheating, plagiarism, and fraud violate ethical and moral rules
of conduct and will not be tolerated at Herndon High School .
Cheating
Defined as receiving or giving unauthorized academic assistance.
Examples including, but not limited to -
- Copying answers from another student's quiz/test
- Providing or using unauthorized notes, data, or other aids,
such as dictionaries, calculators, cell phones, or other electronic
devices, during quizzes or tests
- Copying another student's homework/project, either in part
or its entirety
- Pressuring someone to provide his or her homework or assignment
for the express purpose of copying
Committing Fraud
Defined as a deception deliberately practiced in order
to secure unfair or unlawful gain . (The American Heritage
Dictionary, page 699.)
Examples including, but not limited to -
- Signing a parent's/guardian's signature or anyone else's
other than one's own on any document, including FCPS or Herndon
High School documents
- Hiring or paying another student/person/website to complete
school assignments
- Misrepresenting experience and/or participation in a club
or organization on a resume
- Presenting community service hours for course credit or honorary
requirements when no service was performed
- Submitting a project or assignment, without making substantial
changes, more than once for credit (without teacher permission)
Plagiarizing
To use and pass off the ideas or writings of another
as one's own. (The American Heritage Dictionary, page 1340.)
Examples including, but not limited to -
- Copying material directly from published material or a website
without providing documentation and a bibliography
- Turning in an assignment or project as your work when it
was written in part or entirely by someone else
- Making up sources or
including sources not consulted in works cited page.
- Altering, restating, or paraphrasing another person's words,
ideas, or work without giving credit or acknowledging your
sources. This would include but not be limited to text, music
and video clips, photos, graphics, and artwork
Stealing
Defined as taking the property of another without
right or permission . (The American Heritage Dictionary, page
1696.)
Examples including, but not limited to -
- Taking another's piece of writing/work and submitting it
as your own.
- Taking teacher copies of quizzes and/or tests from a classroom/workroom.
Herndon Community Responsibilites
Student Responsibilities
- Learn the HHS Honor Code
- Pledge to uphold and sustain academic integrity in our school
by being an example to others
- Help create an academic environment where all members of
the school community view cheating as socially unacceptable
Parent/Guardian Responsibilities
- Fully understand the school's Honor Code policy
- Support the academic integrity of the school by establishing
clear expectations that their students will adhere to the Honor
Code
- Support the school's decision regarding consequences should
their students violate the Honor Code
Teacher Responsibilities
- To present and uphold the HHS Honor Code
- To display the Honor Code in the classroom
- To closely monitor students in a testing environment
- To report any violation of the Honor Code to the parent/guardian
and appropriate administrator
Administrator Responsibilities
- To provide students, parents, and faculty/staff a written
copy of the HHS Honor Code
- To present and uphold Honor Code
- To display the Honor Code in hallways
- Maintain a written record of Honor Code violations in student
discipline folders
Consequences for Violating
the Honor Code (updated 6/25/08)
1st Offense
- Teacher notifies parent
- Student will receive zero on assignment
2nd Offense
- Receive all 1st offense consequences
- Notification will be sent to honor societies and/or class
office sponsor
- Student will receive a discipline referral
3rd Offense
- Student will receive a 0% on the assignment/assessment
- School personnel will not write or prepare any letters of
recommendation for the student (i.e. for TJHSST or college
admissions, for employment, etc.)
- Student will receive a discipline referral, serve a one day
suspension for cheating and for failing to comply with the
behavioral contract.
Honor Code Presentation
to Students
- The Honor Code will be added to the SR&R video and reviewed
along with the SR&R
- Plagiarism presentation to all 9th grade English classes
by Kay Rice and Bonnie Prouty during the 1st qtr.
- All students will be required to sign the Herndon Honor Code
Pledge!
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