Academic Honesty
Academic Honesty Procedures Robinson Secondary School
Robinson Secondary School Academic Honesty Policy
First offense: If a student cheats on a major assessment, they may retake the assessment within 5 school days with the following penalty:
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70% of the grade earned on the retest
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Required student reflection after meeting with the administrator
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Student will be placed on a one year long probation for all honor societies
Second offense: If a student cheats on a major assessment, they may retake the assessment within 5 school days with the following penalty:
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60% of the grade earned on the retest
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Saturday school detention
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Student will be dismissed from all Honor societies. If a student is not yet a member of an honor society, they may not apply to be a member for the next school year
Third offense and subsequent offenses: If a student cheats on a major assessment, they may retake the assessment within 5 school days with the following penalty:
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50% of the grade earned on the retest
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Up to two days of ISS
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Student will be prohibited from applying to SGA or any other school leadership role for the next academic year
Honor societies
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Students can apply with only one offense, but only for probationary status
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Probationary period lasts for the remainder of the school year
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If a student is late to a required meeting, does not complete service hour requirements, or suffers another malpractice infraction, that student is then dismissed from the honor society
Minor assessment incidences of malpractice
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Minor assessments include formative or informal assessments, classwork or homework
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Malpractice within minor assessments will be handled within the classroom by the classroom teacher
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Class grade consequence will be a zero for that assignment
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Teachers will inform parents of malpractice via email and cc grade level administrator
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If a student accumulates 3 separate instances of minor assessment malpractice, he/she will then be moved to the first major offense consequence status.