5505 - ACADEMIC HONESTY

The Board values honesty and expects integrity in the District’s students. Violating academic honesty erodes the trust between teachers and students as well as compromises the academic standing of other students. So that students are judged solely on their own merits, the Board prohibits any student from presenting someone else’s work as their own, using artificial intelligence platforms in place of one’s own work, providing unauthorized assistance to another student, and cheating in all its forms.

All school work submitted for the purpose of meeting course requirements must be the individual student’s original work. It is prohibited for any student to unfairly advance their own academic performance or that of any other student. Likewise, no student may intentionally limit or impede the academic performance or intellectual pursuits of other students.  

Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to:

1. plagiarism (of ideas, work, research, speech, art, music, etc.);
    
2. forgery of another’s work;
    
3. utilizing artificial intelligence platforms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to create content and then submitting the content as one’s own;
    
4. downloading or copying information from other sources and presenting it as one’s own;
    
5. using language translation work of someone else when the expectation is doing one’s own translation;
    
6. copying another person’s work;
    
7. allowing another person to copy one’s own work;
    
8. stealing another person’s work;
9. doing another person’s work for them;
10. distributing copies of one’s work for use by others;
11. distributing copies of someone else’s work for use by others;
12. intentionally accessing another’s work for the purpose of presenting it as one’s own;
13. distributing or receiving answers to assignments, quizzes, tests, assessments, etc.;
14. distributing or receiving questions from quizzes, tests, assessments, etc.

Faculty and the administration have the responsibility for monitoring students’ work for compliance with this policy.

All teachers, beginning in the elementary grades, will educate students as to what constitutes academic dishonesty and what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior in District schools regarding academic integrity.  Such education shall reference this Board policy.

Consequences for Violation of Policy

Students who violate this policy are subject to consequences.

Parents shall be contacted as soon as practicable to report any alleged acts of academic dishonesty by their child.

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