| VI. Consequences for plagiarism at Gilman School
By plagiarizing an assignment, students are
both acting against their own integrity
and putting themselves at risk for academic failure.
Consequences will result in
both areas.
Honor consequences:
Plagiarism offenses will be brought before
the Honor Committee at the discretion
of the teacher who has observed the honor violation. Once a teacher has
brought
the matter before the Honor Committee, the committee will convene to
pass judgment
on the implicated student. The
Honor Committee, upon hearing arguments regarding
the offense, may judge in any of the following ways:
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--Decide that no honor violation
has been committed.
--Recommend suspension of the
student for any number of days.
--Place a reprimand in the
student’s personal file that will be a part of his permanent
record.
--Recommend the student for
expulsion.
The Headmaster of the school
reserves the right to reverse any decision made by the
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Academic consequences:
The teacher reserves the right to give a zero to the
student’s assignment, regardless
of the paper’s merit as evaluated by traditional standards and
regardless of how
small the plagiarism offense might be. Alternatively, the teacher may
decide simply
to dock points or to require the student to rewrite the paper in full.
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