A safe and productive educational environment requires a trust among students and between students and teachers. Cheating destroys trust, makes accurate assessment and evaluation impossible, and hinders fairness and equal opportunity in the classroom.

For our purposes, plagiarism is the intent to present someone else’s work or ideas as if they were your own.

Students will be asked to write a pledge of academic integrity on every assignment, quiz, and test that they turn in to me.

Students who cheat or plagiarize will receive a zero for the assignment, quiz, or test. The counselor, dean, and parents will be notified.

Absences and Tardiness:  Absences and tardiness will be handled according to school policy with no exceptions. (See Student Handbook)

·         You will be counted tardy if you are not in the classroom when the bell rings.

·         Any written excuse for a tardy should go through the attendance office. So, go to the attendance office first.

·       Students will not earn credit for  work that is not turned in because of unexcused tardiness or absence.

·     You will receive a one day extension on assignments for each day of class that you miss because of  an excused absence.

·         You are responsible for material (including class notes, future assignments, and/or handouts) missed because of excused or unexcused absences or tardiness.

·         You need to obtain any missed lecture notes from reliable fellow classmates. 

·         You need to get future assignments and handouts from fellow classmates or the teacher.

•   Course schedules and assignment due dates will be posted in multiple places, please stay updated. 

The most pressing concern with regards to late work is that students will not be prepared to do the essential work of the class. All assignments in this course are required; therefore, all assignments will be turned in even if they are late.

 

·         If a student knows that he or she will be absent, they need to work out a plan with the teacher for making up missed work before their scheduled absence.

·         If a student knows that circumstances will make it impossible to get work in on time they should communicate that with the teacher to work out a solution

·         I do not excuse late work because of technology problems.  There are too many alternative solutions.

 

My assignments have a purpose; therefore, all of my assignments need to be completed. We do many collaborative projects, both large and small, that require every students to have assignments ready on time. I also have many multi-stage projects that require a student to complete steps in a sequence. This that students can quicky find themselves in an overwhelming hole. For this reason I have instituted the following penalties:

 

Assignments turned in after the due date are immediately reduced to a 70% because the student has not fulfilled the minimum requirements of the assignment. Poor quality may reduce the grade further.

 

Grades are reduced to 50% after 30 days.

 

Students will not receive credit after 30 days. - There will be a deadline for turning in late work before the last week of the semester. I will announce the deadline in second quarter.

Students risk an incomplete if they do not turn in major assignments.