Letter of Intent to Participate in The


Ronald Webster
Principal / International Baccalaureate Program
Honor Code
Klein Oak High School /
Linda Garner

Coordinator

The IB Programme offers a quality education that ensures knowledge and cultivates the virtues of honesty, integrity, and respect for individual achievement. These virtues form the cornerstone of the International Baccalaureate program.

Section IV, Article 9 of the IB Program Regulations states the following:

IB students are required to act in a responsible and ethical manner throughout their participation in the Certificate and Diploma Programs and examinations. Candidates must avoid any form of malpractice.

Every faculty member will work to nurture an environment that fosters adherence to these standards, in part ensuring fair testing and learning conditions for all students. All Diploma and Certificate candidates at Klein Oak High School must uphold the standards of conduct as outlined in the Honor Code.

Statement of Code: The IB Honor Code begins with the belief that every student has the right to pursue an education free from the ills caused by any form of intellectual dishonesty. Students are honor-bound to refrain from unethical actions to gain an unfair academic advantage. Students are expected to take positive action to stop any and all violations of the honor code they see. Such action includes speaking directly to the offender, and/or speaking privately to a principal. All Diploma and Certificate Candidates in the IB Program at Klein Oak High School must uphold the standards of academic conduct outlined in the Honor Code.

Academic misconduct can include, but is not limited to the following actions:

  1. Plagiarism
  2. Submitting a paper, examination, or other assignment as one’s own when it was written or created by another.
  3. Verbatim copying of portions of another’s writing without proper notation and acknowledgement of the source in an accepted scholarly format.
  4. Paraphrasing or restating someone else’s ideas without proper acknowledgement of such text.
  5. Falsely citing a source or attributing work to a source from which the referenced material was not obtained.
  6. Fabricating or altering data.
  7. Cheating
  8. Giving/receiving/using unauthorized aid on in-class or take-home examinations.
  9. Giving/receiving/using unauthorized aid on class work, in the preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by the teacher as the basis of grading.
  10. Deliberate falsification of a written or verbal statement of fact to a faculty member in order to obtain unearned academic credit for himself/herself or another student.
  11. Forgery, alteration or misuse of any school document relating to the student’s academic status.

Penalties for Academic Misconduct:

Incidents of academic misconduct are subject to review by a committee composed of the IB Coordinator, an administrator, and an IB faculty member. The committee may recommend any one or a combination of the following penalties (in addition to the sanctions imposed by the teacher in whose class the misconduct occurred):

  1. Parent/student/committee conference.
  2. Probationary period of specified length
  3. Fulfillment of penalty community service hours
  4. Placement of the record of the infraction(s) in student’s official file
  5. Information in the student’s file made available to other school organizations, to colleges and universities, and to scholarship selection personnel
  6. Disqualification from IB examinations
  7. Dismissal from the IB program
  8. Removal by IBO of the award of the IB Diploma

I have read the International Baccalaureate Honor Code of Klein Oak High School and agree to abide by its requirements.

NAME School ID#

PRINT

Student Signature Date

Parent Signature Date

References:

Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity

Garland High School (Texas) International Baccalaureate Honor Code

Georgia Tech Honor Code

Killeen High School (Texas) International Baccalaureate Honor Code

Northwestern University Principles and Safeguards

Spruce Creek High School (Florida) International Baccalaureate Honor Code

Stanford University Honor Code

Tulane University Liberal Arts and Sciences Honor Code

Approved: Jean Heiskell, Principal Klein Oak High School (8/04)

Approved: Kelly Schumacher, Principal Klein Oak High School (9/07)

Approved: Ronald Webster, Principal Klein Oak High School (12/09)

Top View