Parent/Student Handbook - PA Leadership Charter School

Administrators will:
1. Assure that all faculty, students and parents have knowledge of the PALCS Honor
Code.
2. Create a school-wide environment which encourages adherence to the Honor Code.
3. Encourage teachers to enforce the Honor Code.
4. Maintain cumulative records of reported violations of the Honor Code.
5. Facilitate Honor Code violation conferences among the student, parent, teacher, and
counselor when follow-up action is appropriate.
6. Enforce appropriate disciplinary actions.
CONSEQUENCES
Upon the first offense of a student’s career at PALCS, the administrator and teacher will:
� notify parents
� assign a grade of zero for the assignment or test, with no opportunity to make up that
work including extra credit
� complete Honor Code Violation Report Form and place in the student’s internal
disciplinary file
� assign any other consequences as deemed appropriate
Upon the second offense of a student’s career at PALCS, the administrator and teacher may:
� institute the consequences listed above
� assign additional academic consequences according to the severity of the incident
� impose a suspension
� notify the directors of all co-curricular activities in which the student is involved
Upon the third and subsequent offenses of a student’s career, the administrator and teacher
may:
� institute the consequences listed above
� consider and/or implement loss of credit for the course
� remove the student from co-curricular activities for length of time determined by the
administration
� recommend expulsion from the school to the School Board of Directors
Students have the right to appeal to the attention of the Director of Academics.
This Honor Code was adapted with guidance from the Honor Codes and Policies of Seaholm High School,
Triton Regional High School, Langley High School, Loyola University, and Rice University.
Plagiarism
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright ©
2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights
reserved. - Source: Dictionary.com
Plagiarism n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is
presented as being your own work 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words
or ideas as if they were your own.
PALCS Parent and Student Handbook 2012-2013
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