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Officially, academic dishonesty is deplored and punished. Practically speaking - it is ignored.
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Y'all have an issue you need to deal with if that is the case there.
FWIW - kids make poor decisions but still need to be held accountable for them while having the opportunity to demonstrate a willingness to own up to and correct those behaviors. We found an enforcable 'Three Strike' policy for cheating/academic dishonesty (plagiarism) worked well for us.
Strike One
- An automatic '0' on the assignment/exam
- Original assignment w/documentation/memos kept in the student's permanent academic file
- Counseling on the effects of the '0' and the violation of the policy regarding cheating/academic honesty
- Parent meeting to discuss the issue and information on its consequences
- Note: a '0' sometimes meant the student failed the course for the semester; I had seniors who cheated on a final exam or plagiarized a final term paper in a core course and had to re-do the course in summer school before receiving their diplomas
Strike Two
- Automatic failure of the course
- Counseling and parent meeting
- Academic probation
Strike Three
There were several occasions when we 'strongly' suspected a student had cheated but could not prove it - however, when confronted with such an issue, we had the student retake the exam or redo the assignment while being monitored by faculty as 'proof' of 'their' integrity and then averaged the two grades for a final academic grade.
After enforcing and holding to our polciy (as outlined in the Students and Parents Handbook) and having several students fail courses, fail to graduate with their class due to the need to retake a course in summer school, and dismissing a student for a 'Strike Three', the word was out to the community and the issue was seldom a problem for us.
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Three Texans ridin' in a pick-up. Which ones the REAL Cowboy?
The one in the middle.
Don't have to drive, Don't have to mess with the gate.
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Those aren't 'real' Texans - real Texans have cattle guards so nobody has to mess with any damn gates. 
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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