Expectations of Academic Honesty

The academic experience at Concord Academy is predicated upon integrity. The school expects that all students commit themselves to learning their teachers’ standards for acceptable work and to upholding those standards. Members of the faculty will do their best to explain what is permissible in every class. In some instances the rules of various teachers will differ (e.g., whether and when collaboration is allowed; the mechanics of citation for sources). A student in doubt about what is allowed in doing academic work has the responsibility to ask the teacher for help and clarification.

Students who attempt to cheat, plagiarize, or in any other way violate CA’s expectation for complete academic honesty will be suspended or dismissed from the school, depending on the severity of the breach of honesty and the student’s willingness to accept responsibility for the infraction.