All Students
Monsignor Farrell High School maintains the highest standard of academic integrity. The following are common types of dishonesty:
1. Cheating:
Using, attempting to use, or possessing unauthorized materials in any academic exercise or having someone else do work for you. Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to, looking at another student’s work during a quiz or test, obtaining or giving a copy of a test prior to the test date, submitting homework borrowed from another student, using technology inappropriately (see #5)
2. Facilitating Academic Dishonesty:
Helping someone else to commit an act of academic dishonesty. This would include giving someone a paper or homework to copy from or allowing someone to cheat from your assessment.
3. Fabrication:
Inventing or falsifying information. Examples include inventing lab data for an experiment one did not do or did not do correctly or making references to sources one did not use in a research paper.
4. Plagiarism:
Using words or ideas of another writer without attribution, so that they seem as if they are one’s own. Plagiarism ranges from copying someone else’s work word for word, to rewriting someone else’s work with only minor word changes, to summarizing without acknowledging a source.
5. Electronic Dishonesty:
Any use of computer, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, or other technological means to falsely present work on any assignment, test, or quiz as his own. Examples include, but are not limited to, using network access in a way that affects a class or another student’s academic work, breaking into someone else’s files or computer account, or using information from any electronic source (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly) dishonestly. Note that presenting work falsely as one’s own is always academic dishonesty, regardless of the electronic means employed.
Penalties for Violating Academic Integrity
Because academic honesty serves as a measure of personal integrity and provides a foundation for the academic strength of Monsignor Farrell, any violation of academic honesty is considered serious. In terms of personal integrity, it makes no difference if one violates it by copying a homework assignment, cheating on a midterm exam, or offering completed assignments to another student. Therefore, in addition to a student receiving no credit for the assignment or assessment, and the teacher contacting a parent, a student who is academically dishonest will face the following consequences:
1st Offense (Probation): Student and parent conference with guidance counselor. The guidance counselor will evaluate and investigate the situation to determine the cause of dishonesty. A referral to the Center for Learning and Academic Wellness (CLAW) may follow.
2nd Offense (Academic Suspension): Student and parent conference with the assistant principal for academics. Student will be placed on academic suspension for the remainder of the current marking period as well as next marking period. Student may not participate in any extracurricular activities during the time of suspension. An evaluation will be conducted midway through the next marking period to terminate “suspension.”
Further offenses may lead to expulsion. What constitutes an offense is determined by the administration. Offenses are consistent for all courses. If a student has an offense in English and in math, he will have accumulated two offenses.