DO YOU KNOW WHAT CHEATING IS ?

• Having someone else do your homework for you (friend, Mom, Dad, sister, or brother.)
• Copying answers to homework questions from someone else.*
• "Working together" on graded assignments.*
• Copying answers from another student's paper while taking a test.
• Changing answers on papers as you pass them in to the teacher.
• Using someone else's notebook for an open-notebook quiz or test.
• Using pages from someone else's notebook for a notebook check.
• Copying work from someone else after you return from an absence, instead of doing the work yourself.  (Classnotes will direct you to copy from a friend; all other work, especially papers which say "turn in for credit", are to be done on your own.)
• Copying information from books, websites, or other sources while writing a  research paper.  This is called "plagiarism" and is very serious.
• Giving your work to someone else to be copied; that makes you a cheater too.*

* When two papers are turned in which are identical to one another, one paper is graded and then the grade is divided in half (resulting in an automatic "F".) Both papers receive the reduced grade because students who share work must also share the grade.

NOTE:  IF YOU HAVE BEEN ABSENT IT IS MY EXPECTATION THAT YOU MAKE UP ALL WORK MISSED ON YOUR OWN.  MAKING UP MISSED WORK DOES NOT INVOLVE COPYING WORKSHEETS OR HOMEWORK FROM A FRIEND.  THE ONLY THINGS WHICH SHOULD BE COPIED ARE CLASSNOTES WHICH WILL SAY "COPY FROM A FRIEND" ON THE TOP.  ALL OTHER WORK IS TO BE DONE BY YOU.

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY........CHARACTER COUNTS

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