Daniel High School expects students to uphold standards of honorable conduct.  It sets standards and serves as one resource for classroom instruction about ethical behavior.  To uphold the Honor Code, students are encouraged to report known violations to a teacher. 

 Under the Daniel Honor Code all persons are expected to:

1. Demonstrate respect for all people in our school and community as well as for the school as an institution.  This includes, but is not limited to, respecting the religious, ethnic, social, and economic background of all members of the school and community.  Prejudiced conduct because of religion, race, gender, or ethnicity is prohibited.
    

2. Demonstrate honesty in all matters.  Lying, cheating, plagiarism, and stealing are serious offenses (see back of this sheet for definition of Cheating and Plagiarism).  If a student is uncertain about whether certain conduct constitutes cheating, the student should ask the teacher for clarification.  Placing ones name on a test paper or assignment signifies agreement with the following:

“On my Honor as a Daniel High Student, I have

neither given nor received unauthorized aid of

any kind on this work.”

 False signing of this Pledge constitutes both lying and cheating.

3. Protect the property of Daniel High School and its community.  Students are  responsible for preserving the campus.  Littering, vandalism, and malicious mischief are prohibited.

        Cheating and Plagiarism

          The following is intended as a guideline for students and parents.  It is not meant to be an all-inclusive list.  The judgment of faculty and administrators is always the final resource for determining what behaviors constitute cheating.

            It is hoped that parents will engage their children in a discussion of what personal honor and integrity mean.  Daniel High School holds high standards of personal conduct for students, and parents can reinforce those standards by articulating an ethical code through such a discussion. 

The following are some of the actions which constitute cheating and will result in disciplinary action.

1. Copying someone else’s homework, or allowing someone to copy your homework, whether handwritten or computer-generated.
2. In science class, copying data from lab partners during lab is acceptable; copying conclusions is not.
3. Using any materials (such as notes), other than those permitted by the teacher, while taking a test or quiz.
4. Asking for or giving specific information about a test already taken by another student.  All test items are confidential.
5. Asking for or giving information to another student while taking a test or quiz.  This includes looking at someone else’s work or allowing someone else to look at the student’s own paper.  This includes receiving information from an unauthorized source.
6. Talking during a test or quiz, even if one’s paper is already handed in, until all students have finished the task.
7. Copying anyone else’s work (another student, a parent, or a published source) and handing it in as student’s own work.  This applies equally to material from print and electronic sources (computer, radio, television, video, etc.)  Further remarks about plagiarism are given below.  Any material taken directly from a computer source, just as with any source, constitutes cheating, unless the student rewrites in his or her own words or uses quotation marks.
8. Listing a bibliography from an encyclopedia, the card catalog, or an electronic source as the student’s own Works Cited list.  Each item on Works Cited list must be read and used by the student.
9. If another person typed a paper for a student, credit must be acknowledged.
10. Copying and Pasting segments of information off an internet web site and turning it in as the student’s own work.

Please Note:  Giving and asking for information with respect to homework or test are considered equally wrong.

*Plagiarism is the unauthorized use of someone else’s thoughts or wording either by incorrect documentation, failing to cite your sources altogether, or simply by relying way too heavily on external resources.

*Plagiarism does not give due credit to the party who really came up with the language and/or idea, but also fails to inform the reader that the information originated from an outside source which they might have had the option of consulting had adequate acknowledgments been provided.

*Plagiarizing undermines your academic integrity.  It betrays your own responsibilities as a student writer, your audience, and the very research community you were entering by deciding to write a research paper in the first place.

*Whether intentional or, as is more often the case, inadvertent, the result is that some or all of another author’s ideas become represented as your own.  It’s like lip-synching to someone else’s voice and accepting the applause and rewards for yourself.

*Incidentally, plagiarism also includes informal published material such as the re-use of the same paper for more than one course or “buying” a paper from another student.

*Because it is intellectual theft, plagiarism is considered by all post-secondary institutions as an academic crime with punishment anywhere from an F on that particular paper to dismissal from the course to expulsion  from the college or university.

Ideas for this work taken from Chiles High School Honor Code  (located in Florida)