Academic Honesty

	Any student suspected of or caught cheating or assisting any other student in cheating will receive a zero. Parents who research, edit, or re-write a child's assignment are effectively assisting the student in cheating. Whenever the work submitted by a student is clearly that of the parent, whether in whole or in part, the teacher may assign zero credit to the assignment. Students are increasingly copying information such as text and graphic images from the Internet, CDROMs, and other electronic media without citing the source. Although a limited amount of these materials are considered public domain, the vast majority is the intellectual property of another whether or not copyrighted by the author. The same guidelines that govern written work also apply to student-created multimedia presentations.