Academic Dishonesty

 

The following behaviors are considered to be violations of the school’s Academic Integrity Policy:

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Any attempt to generate, facilitate, or receive assistance from AI technologies to complete academic work without proper authorization is considered academic dishonesty.

Cheating on Tests or Assignments

Any selling, digital imaging, photocopying, sharing, or using unauthorized assistance while taking a test, quiz, or other individually graded assignment without the express permission from the teacher is considered cheating. This includes looking at another student’s paper, sharing answers, copying another student’s assignment/paper, allowing someone to copy your paper, or using unauthorized notes or an electronic device while testing. 

Fabrication

Any falsification and/or invention of data, citation, or another authority in an academic exercise, such as laboratory data.

Unauthorized Collaboration

Copying work or collaborating on assignments that was assigned to be done independently. Unauthorized collaboration includes any intentional attempt to copy or share an assignment, paper, and/or test information with another person or the act of giving information, materials, answers, or an unfair advantage to another person.

Plagiarism

Any representation of another’s ideas, words, or work as one’s own. Plagiarism includes the misuse of published material, electronic material, and/or the work of other students. The original writer who shares his/her paper for another to copy, without the permission of the teacher, is engaged in plagiarism. Recycling or reusing papers, projects, and/or assignments without authorization in multiple classes is also considered plagiarism.

Alteration or Theft of Material

Any unauthorized alteration or theft of student, teacher, library, school data/information and/or electronic materials.

Collusion

Collusion occurs when any student knowingly or intentionally helps another student perform an act of academic dishonesty. Collusion is an act of academic dishonesty and will be disciplined in the same manner as the act itself.

 

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY CONSEQUENCES

 

If you choose to cheat rather than earning your grades honestly through dedication and hard work, you should be aware of the life-changing consequences you may face:

• Student will be monitored for academic misconduct for this, and all future years at Vista del Lago.
• The incident is recorded in the student’s discipline file.
• The student receives a lowered citizenship grade, which may impact the student’s ability to participate in student activities, sports and clubs.
• Honors and AP students are moved to the bottom of the waitlist for future Honors and AP courses.
• Students are deemed ineligible for National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation.
• Counselors and teachers normally refuse to write senior letters of recommendation.
• Many private colleges and universities require students to document any disciplinary action for academic dishonesty on their college application which may negatively impact their ability for admission.

School discipline procedures for academic dishonesty are as follows:

First Offense:

1. Parent contacted by the teacher.
2. Discipline conference with Administrator.
3. Incident documented in discipline record.
4. Student will be monitored for academic misconduct for the current and all subsequent years at Vista del Lago.
5. Suspension or Saturday School may be assigned.
6. Student must complete reading/writing assignment focused on the importance of honesty and integrity with regards  to school and the workplace.
7. Provided the student satisfactorily completes the above assignment, he/she may be allowed to redo the original or an equivalent assignment for partial credit, depending on the department policy. Any make-up work will be considered late and subject to the same penalties as any other late work.

 

Second/Continuing Offense:

Consequences listed in the first offense, and one or more of the following:

1. The student will attend a hearing before the Academic Integrity Committee, a panel of teachers, counselors and administrators who will determine appropriate disciplinary action.
2. The student will receive a “0” on the assignment with no opportunity for grade recovery.
3. The student will be given an “F” for the six week grading period in which the incident occurred.
4. The student will be dropped from the class with a grade of “F.”

If you choose to cheat rather than earning your grades honestly through dedication and hard work, you should be aware of the life-changing consequences you may face:

• Student will be monitored for academic misconduct for this, and all future years at Vista del Lago.
• The incident is recorded in the student’s discipline file.
• The student receives a lowered citizenship grade, which may impact the student’s ability to participate in student activities, sports and clubs.
• Honors and AP students are moved to the bottom of the waitlist for future Honors and AP courses.
• Students are deemed ineligible for National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation.
• Counselors and teachers normally refuse to write senior letters of recommendation.
• Many private colleges and universities require students to document any disciplinary action for academic dishonesty on their college application which may negatively impact their ability for admission.

School discipline procedures for academic dishonesty are as follows:

First Offense:

1. Parent contacted by the teacher.
2. Discipline conference with Administrator.
3. Incident documented in discipline record.
4. Student will be monitored for academic misconduct for the current and all subsequent years at Vista del Lago.
5. Suspension or Saturday School may be assigned.
6. Student must complete reading/writing assignment focused on the importance of honesty and integrity with regards  to school and the workplace.
7. Provided the student satisfactorily completes the above assignment, he/she may be allowed to redo the original or an equivalent assignment for partial credit, depending on the department policy. Any make-up work will be considered late and subject to the same penalties as any other late work.

Second/Continuing Offense:

Consequences listed in the first offense, and one or more of the following:

1. The student will attend a hearing before the Academic Integrity Committee, a panel of teachers, counselors and administrators who will determine appropriate disciplinary action.
2. The student will receive a “0” on the assignment with no opportunity for grade recovery.
3. The student will be given an “F” for the six week grading period in which the incident occurred.
4. The student will be dropped from the class with a grade of “F.”