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SCHOOL COUNSELING:
Counseling service is available to all students. Many student problems, concerning both the student's school and personal life, can be helped by counseling with a competent person. The school counselor or the student's teacher will be happy to try to help him with any of these problems. Students and parents should view their home school’s web page to see more information about counseling services or to contact counselors.
SCHOOL SPONSORED ACTIVITIES:
Students enrolled in PDLA will be able to participate in all Plum Borough School District activities and extracurriculars. For information regarding specifics about clubs, activities, and athletics please check the PBSD website for details and information on specific events or activities. Information regarding specific events for each building will be updated on the school’s webpage. Students who participate in any school-sponsored activity are expected to follow the Student Code of Conduct. Please review these with your child before each event/activity.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY/PLAGIARISM:
Plum Borough School District expects the highest standard of honesty in all phases of academic work from its students. Academic dishonesty in any form is an offense against the integrity of the entire school community and will not be tolerated. Academic dishonesty or more commonly known as cheating or plagiarism, can be defined as any of the following (this list is not all-inclusive):
1. Obtaining assistance from or knowingly giving assistance to another student during an exam.
2. The use of notes, books, or other source of information during an exam that is not authorized by the examiner.
3. Obtaining without authorization an examination or any part thereof.
4. Turning in someone else’s work as your own or allowing them to turn your work in as their own.
5. Altering, or causing to be altered, the record of any grade on a test, quiz, etc., or in a grade book, office, or other
record.
6. Using a personal electronic device to photograph any portion of an assessment to use for personal reasons or to
pass it on to other students.
7. Plagiarism - Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, defines plagiarism as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or
words of another) as one’s own: use (another’s production) without crediting the source. Examples of plagiarism include copying passages or visual downloads from the Internet or other texts; not documenting written or oral sources such as teachers, other students, critics; fabricating or manipulating a quotation or source and using free or purchased papers from the Internet or other source.
8. Using a program, software, service, or any other person/system to translate words or spoken language for the purposes of completing a required task in a World Language course. Also, submitting any form of work in a World Language course that includes vocabulary and or grammar that is above the course level that the student is currently enrolled in.
a. Students may be asked to resubmit their work or receive a 0 for the assignment. Online translators are not to be used to complete assignments.
Academic Dishonesty will be subject to the following consequences:
1. No credit given for the assignment, assessment, project, or specified portion on which the student cheated or plagiarised.
2. Possible disciplinary consequences depending on the nature of the infraction, to be determined by the teacher and administration.
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS: Board Policy 217
The high school diploma is granted upon successful completion of state and district mandated subjects. Students who do not satisfy the credits will not receive their diploma or participate in the commencement ceremony. All financial obligations must be satisfied before participating in commencement. Students who complete their senior year but fail to meet the graduation requirements, as presented in the Program of Studies Booklet, can receive their diplomas upon successful completion of required course(s) from a state certified institution.
Passing the G.E.D. Test does not qualify for the granting of the regular high school diploma. Students who quit school prior to the graduation year of their class as defined by the State of Pennsylvania will be issued an Equivalency Diploma, either for completion of coursework which is state certified or for successful passing of the G.E.D. Test. The diploma will
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