Sequoia Choice Distance Learning (Choice) encourages students to do their personal best. Choice maintains a strong commitment to the principles of academic integrity and expects students to behave with honesty in all their school interactions.
Academic integrity:
- Students are honest in all their dealings with school administrators, teachers, advisors, specialists, staff, and other students.
- Every student assignment represents the student's best effort at the time.
- Students do not allow others to copy their work. Every assignment submitted should represent the student's individual knowledge and ability.
- Students do not share with other students specific information regarding lesson assessments or exams.
- Students use only authorized notes and materials while taking tests or completing assignments. Students should openly disclose all materials used on assignments and tests to parents, teachers, advisors, and other school staff and use only those materials allowed for each assignment.
- Students do not allow others (including parents/guardians or family members) to complete their work for them. While Choice encourages parents/guardians to actively participate in their student's education, adults should use careful judgment when helping their student complete assignments. All student work must accurately reflect the student's abilities, effort, and time spent on task.
- Students do not plagiarize. Plagiarism is defined as using another's words, information, or ideas without giving credit to the original source. It involves copying the work of other students, authors, organizations, or individuals and presenting it as the student's own.
- Students are expected to follow rules of "Nettiquette" and common courtesy when engaging in dialogue with online instructors
Electronic resources and the Internet, greatly expand opportunities for plagiarism, making it easy to copy and paste others' work into student documents or even download entire papers and claim ownership for them. These practices are severe violations of academic integrity. Choice teachers and advisors will thoroughly check student work for authenticity and use technologies that search the Internet and other sources to detect work that is not original.
To avoid plagiarism, students must cite all outside references used when completing their work, including Internet resources.
If the school determines that a student has violated any of the guidelines above, Choice will contact the student's parent/guardian and the student will receive consequences ranging from an informal conference to mandatory withdrawal depending on severity of violation, student attitude, and prior history. Violations of academic integrity often result in academic consequences such as no credit on an assignment or no credit and automatic withdrawal from a course.
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