The International Baccalaureate offers a quality education that not only ensures knowledge, but also cultivates the virtues of honor, courtesy, and perseverance.  Of these virtues, honor is of great importance, for it is personal integrity that will influence and finally determine many of our actions and beliefs.  To help the development of such values, the Pre-IB/IB Honor Code has been established to help uphold the tradition of excellence for which Riverview High School is known and respected and on which IB’s Mission is based.

As a student of the pre-IB or IB program of Riverview High School, you are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity, overall scholarship, school leadership and community responsibility. So that the expectations of the IB faculty are clear, we have compiled a list of behaviors we unanimously agree are forms of cheating.

1. Looking on someone else’s paper during a test or quiz.
2. Plagiarizing another’s words or ideas (including data downloaded from the internet) in a report, research paper, or extended essay.
3. Revealing to someone who has not taken a test or quiz what the questions or problems are.
4. Copying or conferring with other students or with adults on any independently designated assignment.
5. Writing notes in a convenient place and referring to them during a test or quiz.
6.   Sliding your paper into viewing range of another student during a test or quiz.
7. Working out signals and using them to help someone on a test or quiz
8. Looking at the paper of a student who is still working on a test when you come into the room from another class; checking out the teacher’s desk to see what might be helpful.
9. Misrepresenting the submission of information (events, hours, or other data) regarding the CAS component of the program.
10. Unauthorized use of technological devices to complete, disseminate or reveal to self or others information or answers.
11. Having knowledge of another IB student’s plan or participation in “cheating” without confiding directly or anonymously to IB personnel.
12. Any infraction that warrants a school referral, or violation of civil or criminal law.

Both IB and RHS will treat cheating as a very serious matter.  An IB Honor Council consisting of the principal, IB Coordinator, a counselor and at least 2 faculty members will convene to decide upon disciplinary action when an infraction of the honor code occurs.  In addition to receiving disciplinary action, an IB student who is found to have breeched the IB Honor Code will be a candidate for exit from IB.  Out of district students will be required to return to their districted school if removed from the IB program.  If a student has been found in violation of the Honor Code, he or she will not be recommended for the National Honor Society or any of the other honor societies.  If the student is already a member, the sponsor of the organization will be notified.  In addition letters of recommendation to colleges may not be written. A violation of the IB Honor Code signifies that a student is not in ‘good standing’ within the IBO. 

Whether you are specifically asked to sign the honor pledge for each IB assignment or not, it will be understood that as an IB student you will always be able to sign the following:

On my honor, I promise that I have neither given nor received help on this assignment/examination, nor will I pass on information to others.