The Class Honor Code & Pledge

Mr. Seeley's Classes, Cary Academy

Each student is honor bound to refrain from stealing, lying about class business, and cheating on academic work.  Stealing is the intentional taking of any property (real, intellectual, or otherwise) without right or permission.  Lying is intentional misrepresentation of any form.  Cheating is any practice, method, or assistance, whether explicitly forbidden or unmentioned, that involves any degree of dishonesty, fraud, or deceit.  Cheating includes plagiarism, which is representing another's ideas or words as one's own.  Additional guidelines for individual assignments may be determined by the instructor; each student is responsible for knowing and adhering to them.  Each student is responsible for learning and observing appropriate documentation of another's work.  Each student is honor bound to report immediately all violations of the Honor Code of which the student has first-hand knowledge; failure to do so is itself a violation of the Honor Code.  All students are responsible for familiarity with and support of the Honor Code.  Any student, faculty member, administrative officer, employee, or guest of the Academy may charge a student with a violation of the Honor Code.

The following statement is the official
Class Honor Pledge:
"On my honor I have neither given nor received unauthorized information regarding this work, I have followed and will continue to observe all regulations regarding it, and I am unaware of any violation of the Honor Code by others."

All work submitted to the instructor for review is automatically understood by all concerned to be pledged with the above affirmation.

*** This Class Honor Code & Pledge is based on that of Davidson College and is not meant to cancel out the Honor Code delineated in the Cary Academy Student Handbook, but rather to clarify its authority, scope, and magnitude. ***