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New Policy - Vol. 17, No. 1 - April 2025 - ACADEMIC HONESTY

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New Policy - Vol. 17, No. 1 - April 2025
5505 - ACADEMIC HONESTY

The Board values honesty and expects integrity in the District’s students.
Violating academic honesty expectations erodes the trust between teachers
and students as well as compromises the academic standing of other
students. So that each student learns the skills being taught and is judged
solely on their own merits, the Board prohibits any student from presenting
someone else’s work as their own, using artificial intelligence platforms in
place of one’s own work, providing unauthorized assistance to another
student, and cheating in any manner.

All school work submitted for the purpose of meeting course requirements
must be the individual student’s original work or the original work of a group
of students for group projects. It is prohibited for any student to unfairly
advance their own academic performance or that of any other student.
Likewise, no student may intentionally limit or impede the academic
performance or intellectual pursuits of other students.

Academic dishonesty ("cheating") includes, but is not limited to:

A. plagiarism (of ideas, work, research, speech, art, music, etc.);

B. forgery of another’s work;

C. presenting the results that are the product of an artificial intelligence
(AI) platform as one’s own, where the use of AI was not specifically

allowed by the teacher as part of the assignment;

D. downloading or copying information from other sources and presenting
it as one’s own;


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E. using language translation work of someone else or using technology
when the expectation is to do one’s own translation;

F. copying another person’s work;

G. allowing another person to copy one’s own work;
H. stealing another person’s work;

I. doing another person’s work for them;

J. distributing copies of one’s work for use by others;

K. distributing copies of someone else’s work for use by others for
academic gain or advantage;

L. intentionally accessing another’s work for the purpose of presenting it
as one’s own for academic gain or advantage;

M. distributing or receiving answers to assignments, quizzes, tests,
assessments, etc.;

N. distributing or receiving questions from quizzes, tests, assessments,
etc.

Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools For School Work

In order to ensure the integrity of the educational process and to promote
fair and equal opportunities for all students, except as outlined below, the
use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools ("AI Tools”) is strictly prohibited for
the completion of schoolwork. The use of AI Tools without the express
permission/consent of a teacher undermines the learning and problem-
solving skills that are essential to academic success and that the staff is
tasked to develop in each student. Students are encouraged to develop their
own knowledge, skills, and understanding of course material rather than
relying solely on AI Tools and they should ask their teachers when they have
questions and/or need assistance. Unauthorized use of AI Tools is considered
a form of plagiarism and any student found using these tools without
permission or in a prohibited manner will be disciplined in accordance with
the Student Code of Conduct.


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Notwithstanding the preceding, students can use AI Tools in the school
setting if they receive prior permission/consent from their teacher, so long
as they use the AI Tools in an ethical and responsible manner. Teachers
have the discretion to authorize students to use AI Tools for the following
uses:

A. Research assistance: AI Tools can be used to help students quickly and
efficiently search for and find relevant information for their school
projects and assignments.

B. Data Analysis: AI Tools can help students analyze, understand, and
interpret large amounts of data, such as text documents or social
media posts. This can be particularly useful for research projects or
data analysis assignments, such as scientific experiments and
marketing research.

C. Language translation: AI Tools can translate texts or documents into
different languages, which can be helpful for students who are learning
a new language or for students who are studying texts written in a
different language.

D. Writing assistance: AI Tools can provide grammar and spelling
corrections, as well as suggest alternative word choices and sentence
structure, to help students improve their writing skills.

E. Accessibility: AI Tools can help students with disabilities access and
understand written materials. For example, text-to-speech software
can help students with specific learning disabilities or visual
impairments read texts, and Al-powered translation tools can help
students with hearing impairments understand spoken language.

Staff and Administration have the responsibility for monitoring students’
work for compliance with this policy.

All teachers, beginning in the elementary grades, will educate students as to
what constitutes academic dishonesty and what is acceptable and
unacceptable behavior in District schools regarding academic integrity. Such
education shall reference this Board policy.

Students who violate this policy are subject to disciplinary consequences.


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Teachers are authorized, in consultation with their Principal, to apply
appropriate consequences for violations of this policy. Disciplinary
consequences for significant violations may include removal from the class
with a failing grade, removal from student leadership positions, elimination
of honors recognition, loss of membership in honor organizations, as well as
other disciplinary consequences appropriate to the nature of the violation.

Parents shall be contacted as soon as practicable to report any alleged acts
of academic dishonesty by their child.

Repeated violations of this policy will result in additional disciplinary
consequences, up to and including suspension and expulsion.

Student and/or parent appeals of disciplinary consequences resulting from a
violation of this policy may be made within five (5) business days to the
Principal, whose decision shall be final. If the Principal was the staff member
responsible for the disciplinary consequence being appealed, then student
and/or parent appeals should be directed within five (5) business days to
the District Administrator whose decision shall be final.

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