Pflugerville High School is a scholarly community devoted to learning and the creation of knowledge. We – the scholarly community of Pflugerville High School, including the faculty and students – view integrity as the basis for intellectual discovery, artistic creation, independent scholarship, and meaningful collaboration. We thus hold honesty – in the representation of our work and in our interactions with teachers, advisers, peers, and students – as the foundation of our community.

Cheating and Plagiarism
Cheating is defined as giving or receiving, and/or using unauthorized information, on any graded assignment, or submitting duplicate work for individual assignments. Any student involved in an instance of cheating will have his paper taken and a grade of zero given. A disciplinary consequence may be assigned to a student found guilty of cheating. Plagiarism consists of representing another person’s ideas or writing as one’s own. Plagiarism will be considered cheating and the student may be subject to disciplinary action.

Examples of Violations
Violations include, but are not limited to the following:

• Plagiarism – using the words or ideas of another as if they were one’s own without giving the author or creator credit through proper documentation or recognition, as through the use of footnotes.
• Using unauthorized sources in preparation of your work.
• Copying from another student’s exam, paper or assignment
• Revealing the content of an exam to students in other classes who have not yet taken the exam
• Use of materials not authorized during a test; eg., notes, textbook, notes written on any part of your body or clothing including hats and shoes
• Submitting a paper, report, examination, or any class assignment which has been altered or corrected, in part or in whole, for reevaluation or re-grading without the consent of the instructor
• Enlisting the assistance of another to write a paper, or writing a paper for someone.
• Selling, giving, lending, or otherwise furnishing to any other person any material (homework assignments, tests, etc.), whether electronically or otherwise which can be shown to contain the questions or answers to any examination scheduled to be given at some subsequent date in any course of study, excluding questions and answers from tests previously administered and returned to a student by the instructor.
• Altering or attempting to alter any official Pflugerville High School document.
• An instructor may delineate other actions he or she considers a violation of the Code in a written course syllabus.

Sanctions
A grade of zero on the examination, project, paper, etc., with no opportunity to re-test or replace that grade. The notation “assigned for academic dishonesty” will be placed in the gradebook. Written notification of the violation and the consequence will be provided to the administration, counseling staff, and sponsors of any extracurricular activity, including but not limited to NHS. The student may also be subject to additional disciplinary action.

1st time phone is confiscated:  Phone is taken up and turned into office.  It will require the Parent/guardian to pick up.  Emergency contacts are not allowed to pick up the property.

2nd  offense and beyond:  phone taken up and thereafter turned into office.  Parent/Guardian must pick up with $15.00 return fee.  Emergency contacts are not allowed to pick up the property.

The student is never allowed to pick up their phone.  Only a parent/guardian will be allowed to pick up the cell phone. The telephone that is turned in must be a fully functioning/working phone.

Earbuds are not allowed at all during the school day (including lunch time)  Earbuds that are taken up can be picked up in the Front Office after school until 4:30 pm. The fee is $1 each time the student has their earbuds confiscated. The student is allowed to pick up the earbuds.

1. Students must display their current PHS ID badge and wear it around their neck on a school-approved lanyard during the entire school day.
2. The designated time for ID badge business is 8:30-8:55 a.m. in the library.
3.  The first student I.D. badge is free, and the additional issuances of an I.D. badge will cost the student $5.00.  Lost or defaced badges must be replaced at the cost of the student.
4.  Only two free temporary I.D.s will be issued to the student per semester.  Temporary badges are only valid on the day of issuance. 
5. The third and subsequent temporary I.D. badge will cost the student $2.00.
6.  Upon the fourth request for a temporary I.D., the student will be reported to the principal for disciplinary consequence.
7. Continued violations will result in progressive disciplinary consequences such as Saturday detention or ISS.