Cheating
Cheating demonstrates a lack of integrity and character that is inconsistent with the goals and values of North Hunterdon High School.
Education is based on learning specific skills, forming lifelong work habits, and developing mature coping skills according to each student’s unique abilities. Stress propels students to make unethical choices. When students choose to cheat, it may be symptom of more serious problems such as inappropriate class placement, over commitment to extra-curricular activities, and/or academic desperation. The compromise of their values through cheating may lead to loss of self-esteem, as the students are often painfully aware of their shortcomings and fight a tiring battle to preserve their images at the cost of their ethics. True self-esteem is based on competence. Cheating robs students of their opportunity to become competent. Assignments should be considered individual unless the instructor states otherwise.
Cheating includes:
Copying, faxing, e-mailing, or in any way duplicating assignments that are turned in, wholly or in part, as original work.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism demonstrates a lack of integrity and character that is inconsistent with the goals and values of North Hunterdon High School.
Excellent written expression of well-formulated ideas is a fundamental skill for academic and career success. Plagiarism interferes with the assessment and feedback process that is necessary in order to promote academic growth. Plagiarism defrauds the instructor with a false view of a student’s strengths and weaknesses. It may prevent further instruction in areas of weakness and delay the student in reaching his or her potential.
Plagiarism includes:
1. Taking someone else’s assignment or portion of an assignment and submitting it as your own.
2. Submitting material written by someone else or rephrasing the ideas of another without giving the author’s name or source
3. Presenting the work of tutors, parents, siblings, or friends as your own
4. Submitting purchased papers as your own
5. Submitting papers from the Internet written by someone else as your own
6. Supporting plagiarism by providing your work to others, whether you believe it will be copies or not.
From Student Handbook:
http://www.nhvweb.net/nhhs/athletics/parentstudenthandbook/discipline/
