Welcome! Open House VAHS 2016-17

Honor Code

We Want You

We Want You We want your ideas, your work, your solutions, your creativity, your poems, your passion, your effort, your persistence, your tears, your innovation, your fierce wonderings, your answers, your questions, your art, your mistakes, your corrections, your essays, your music, your synthesis, your jokes, your critical thinking, your dances, your growth, your acting, your flexible thinking, your curiosity, your striving, your . . . your . . . your . . . your . . . .

What We Are Trying To Build

A place where:

We Want You. What We Don’t Want Is . . . Their ideas, their work, their solutions, their creativity, their effort, their etc.

We live in a culture that condones cheating. We cheat in little ways and in big ways: we litter, we bypass carline, we speed, we text while driving, we engage in or pretend not to see underage drinking, we park in handicapped spaces, we drive impaired, we rationalize illegal drug use, we evade taxes, we plagiarize, and we copy a classmate’s answer. Cheating is insidious and contagious and ultimately self-destructive, and Voyager is not immune.

Cheating. Cheating includes the actual giving or receiving of any unauthorized aid or assistance or the actual giving or receiving of unfair advantage on any form of academic work. Plagiarism. Plagiarism includes the copying of the language, structure, idea and/or thought of another and representing it as one's own original work.

Academic dishonesty examples include but are not limited to: taking someone else’s work and submitting it as one’s own work; giving or receiving answers by use of signals or technology during a test/exam; copying with or without the other person’s knowledge during a test/exam; doing any part of a class assignment for someone else; using unauthorized notes during a test/exam; collaborating with other students on assignments that were to be done independently; taking parts of or the entire work for class assignments from another student(s) and submitting it as one’s own work; fabricating data; altering answers on a scored test and submitting for a grade change; submitting essays/compositions that one has submitted in a previous class without the permission of the teacher; use or consultation of unauthorized materials or use of unauthorized equipment or devices on tests, quizzes, assignments, or examinations.

Plagiarism examples include but are not limited to: using the exact language of someone else without the use of quotation marks and without giving proper credit to the author; presenting a sequence of ideas or arranging the material of someone else, even though such is expressed in one’s own words, i.e., paraphrasing, without giving appropriate acknowledgement; submitting a document written by someone else but representing it as one’s own; padding items of a bibliography or falsifying information in a works cited page; submitting data which have been altered or contrived in such a way as to be deliberately misleading.

You WILL get a 0 on the un-score-able assignment until an alternate assignment is completed, at which point you will get at most a 60.

You WILL get an administrative referral to the Student Justice Council and a consequence consistent with schoolwide policy.

Honor Code I refuse to cheat. I refuse to cheat.

I Refuse To Cheat