The students and faculty at Calhoun Middle School promote excellence. Academic dishonesty violates our core principles of honesty, integrity, respect, and responsibility. Academic integrity is expected on all classroom activities and assignments. Any student who displays academic dishonesty may be subject to a zero on the assignment, parent contact, and other disciplinary action. Induction or membership in honor society(ies), serving in student leadership position(s), and enrollment in honors classes may also be affected. Administration and teachers reserve the right to issue more severe consequences for egregious or multiple infractions of academic dishonesty.  

• Copying another person’s work or allowing another person to copy your work

• Looking at and/or copying information from another student’s test/exam/quiz/essay

• Having another person complete an assignment or any part of an assignment for you including but not limited to AI generated submissions

• Submitting an assignment composed by another person as your own (graded or ungraded)

• Sharing assignment or assessment information with another student(s) who has/have not yet taken the assessment

• Stealing exams, quizzes, or other assignments from a teacher or classroom either physically or electronically

• Possessing any teacher grading key or teacher text/manual

• Using stolen tests or materials

• Unauthorized use of study asides, notes, books, data, apps, computer programs, etc. on an assignment

• Unauthorized use of electronics during assessments

• Failure to report advance knowledge of an assessment or answer key in a timely manner 

• Any type of communication with another student during an individual assessment period

• Communicating with another student after completing an assessment while the assessment is being completed by another student(s) in the classroom

• Plagiarism, which is the intentional or unintentional practice of using someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own

• Sabotaging another student’s work

For additional information, please refer to student handbook.