Attendance is important for academic success. Parents should make every effort to ensure students are at school and on time. Students are acknowledged each grading period for perfect attendance. To be considered, students must meet the following criteria: No absences (excused or unexcused), and more than (3) tardies per grading period No HOMEWORK Homework is an extension of daily lessons and is designed for the student to work independently toward mastery of the curriculum objective. Students will be assigned homework at the discretion of individual teachers. The assignment of independent practice activities (homework) is at the individual teacher’s discretion. However, there is a reasonable expectation that the homework will be relevant, appropriately rigorous and will be graded and reviewed in an acceptable timely manner. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Students are expected to exhibit honesty at all times. Students caught participating in a dishonest act will be subject to academic and behavioral discipline. Students are expected to conduct themselves honestly and with integrity in their work. Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to cheating, plagiarism and a lack of acknowledgement of research sources. Cheating shall mean either receiving or giving unapproved aid on a written lesson, test, examination, or other work that is assigned to be the effort of one student. Permitting a classmate to copy one’s work is held to be equally disruptive of the principles of academic integrity as the copying itself. Plagiarism and failure to provide citations and reference to sources of information that is neither general knowledge nor knowledge one possessed prior to researching a topic are serious violations of academic integrity. Downloading of an online research paper or cutting and pasting of portions of an online research paper are forms of plagiarism and will be treated with severity. On the college and university level, such behavior can result in expulsion from the institution. On the professional level, one’s job can be lost and civil lawsuits can be filed if one engages in this behavior. It is essential that k-12 students understand this reality. BULLYING Bullying is a form of harassment. Bullying means the repeated intimidation of others by the real or threatened infliction of physical, verbal, written, electronically transmitted or emotional abuse or through attacks on the property of another. Bullying may include, but is not limited to, verbal taunts, name-calling and put-downs, extortion of money or possessions, implied or stated threats, and exclusion from peer groups.
Attendance is important for academic success. Parents should make every effort to ensure students are at school and on time. Students are acknowledged each grading period for perfect attendance. To be considered, students must meet the following criteria: No absences (excused or unexcused), and No more than (3) tardies per grading period HOMEWORK Homework is an extension of daily lessons and is designed for the student to work independently toward mastery of the curriculum objective. Students will be assigned homework at the discretion of individual teachers. The assignment of independent practice activities (homework) is at the individual teacher’s discretion. However, there is a reasonable expectation that the homework will be relevant, appropriately rigorous and will be graded and reviewed in an acceptable timely manner. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Students are expected to exhibit honesty at all times. Students caught participating in a dishonest act will be subject to academic and behavioral discipline. Students are expected to conduct themselves honestly and with integrity in their work. Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to cheating, plagiarism and a lack of acknowledgement of research sources. Cheating shall mean either receiving or giving unapproved aid on a written lesson, test, examination, or other work that is assigned to be the effort of one student. Permitting a classmate to copy one’s work is held to be equally disruptive of the principles of academic integrity as the copying itself. Plagiarism and failure to provide citations and reference to sources of information that is neither general knowledge nor knowledge one possessed prior to researching a topic are serious violations of academic integrity. Downloading of an online research paper or cutting and pasting of portions of an online research paper are forms of plagiarism and will be treated with severity. On the college and university level, such behavior can result in expulsion from the institution. On the professional level, one’s job can be lost and civil lawsuits can be filed if one engages in this behavior. It is essential that k-12 students understand this reality. BULLYING Bullying is a form of harassment. Bullying means the repeated intimidation of others by the real or threatened infliction of physical, verbal, written, electronically transmitted or emotional abuse or through attacks on the property of another. Bullying may include, but is not limited to, verbal taunts, name-calling and put-downs, extortion of money or possessions, implied or stated threats, and exclusion from peer groups.
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