Honor Code is Signed!
In preparation for class trips and the school year, upper and middle school students and faculty dress up for the annual Honor Code Signing Ceremonies.
As part of the School’s honor system, the middle and upper school students and faculty members signed the Honor Code for this school year in special assemblies this week. As a required dress-up day, students and teachers publicly sign the code in a formal ceremony, committing themselves and the School. After which the signatures are framed and posted in the respective divisions.
The goal of O’Neal’s Honor Code includes five tenets:
1. To support, in individual students, the further development of integrity, responsibility, and accountability in both academic and personal matters
2. To instill loyalty to The O'Neal School in the student body as a whole
3. To assist in maintaining a high ethical climate in the Middle and Upper Schools
4. To ensure that a student's work is his or her own and not that of another person
5. To instill in students a constant awareness of the ramifications of their actions and the need not to place themselves in questionable situations or in circumstances that connote dishonest or unlawful acts.
Students are requested to abide by the following pledge as a personal commitment to the honor, integrity, and high standards of the School:1. I shall be honest in all matters regarding the life of the School. My word may always be trusted.
2. The work that I present will always be my own.
3. I shall not seek unfair advantage over my fellow students by cheating or plagiarizing.
The School’s honor code provides for a safe environment where lockers remain without locks. Education on the definition of plagiarism is stressed and highly monitored.
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