<p>Does your teacher, school or school district have a written policy regarding cheating?</p>
<p>various written policies from the net...</p>
<p>Cheating: Student cheating is one of the most negative types of behavior that can exist in school, and our teaching staff and administration will not tolerate its existence. If cheating is found to have occurred, the following consequences will be enforced. On the first offense the student will receive a zero for the work and the teacher will notify the parents. If a second offense occurs the student will be removed from the class until a conference between the teacher, student, parents, and an administrator can take place. The student will again receive a zero for the work, but will be readmitted to class after the conference. If a third offense occurs, the student will be removed from the class and will receive a failing grade for the semester. </p>
<p>The following will be considered cheating in this class: </p>
<p>1) copying homework, labs, or test answers;
2) giving your homework, labs, or tests to someone else to copy. (Working together {collaboration} is not cheating for labs and homework);
3) representing work as your own when it is not {plagiarism, etc.}.</p>
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<p>Do your own homework. Giving your homework to another student or copying another student's homework is considered cheating and will be addressed as such for all students involved. </p>
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<p>Cheating and Plagiarism</p>
<p>Cheating by a student is a serious ethical violation. Cheating takes many forms and can include the following:[ul][<em>]Copying a friends homework.
[</em>]Giving your homework to someone so that he/she can copy it.
[<em>]Looking at other students answers on tests and quizzes.
[</em>]Using cheat sheets on tests or quizzes.
[li]Claiming someone elses work as your own.[/ul]If you are caught cheating you will receive a zero on your assignment or test, which cannot be made up. I will also call home to explain the situation to your parents.</p>[/li]
<p>Plagiarism, the taking of the published work of another and claiming it as your own, is also unethical and illegal. Plagiarism carries the same consequences stated above for cheating, but may also carry legal consequences. If you are using ideas or materials created by another individual, group, or organization, you must include a citation which appropriately identifies the original creator. The use of materials from the internet also requires appropriate citations. As long as we are clear as to what is appropriate, I am confident that cheating and plagiarism will not become a problem.</p>
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<p>Copying or giving your homework to someone to copy is not acceptable and is considered cheating. Anyone caught doing either will receive a zero for that assignment.</p>
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<p>news article from USA Today...</p>
<p>Posted 4/29/2004 12:51 PM</p>
<p>Poll: Most teens see cheating as widespread in schools</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) More than seven in 10 teenagers say students in their school cheat on tests, and almost as many say cheating on homework is widespread, too, a national poll finds.
Almost a third of students admit to cheating, according to the ABC News Primetime poll of kids age 12 to 17.</p>
<p>The vast majority of students said they know cheaters lose out in the long run, and that their parents would rather have them do their best work regardless of grades than cheat.</p>
<p>Yet just a third of students said they've had a serious talk with their parents about cheating. And most of those polled said cheaters in their school don't get caught.</p>
<p>Older teens were most likely to be involved in cheating.</p>
<p>More than two in 10 students age 12 to 14 say they've cheated; that number rose to more than 4 in 10 among students age 16 and 17.</p>
<p>Two in three students said at least some students at their school have handed in homework or papers not their own, such as work copied from another student or downloaded from the Internet.</p>
<p>Among those who admitted cheating, most said they've done it rarely. Less than a third said they cheat occasionally, and just a few said they've cheated very often.</p>
<p>Peer influence is a factor, the poll found. Those with friends who have cheated are more tempted and more likely to cheat themselves.</p>
<p>A third of students said they are more likely to cheat if they know they'd never get caught, and almost as many said cheating would be more tempting if they had a teacher who didn't seem to care about them or their work.</p>
<p>The telephone poll of a random sample of 504 students was conducted Feb. 4 to 8. The poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.</p>