Lake Braddock Honor Code Commitments

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Students will:

  1. Adhere to all FCPS rules and regulations.
  2. Become knowledgeable of the school-wide Honor Code.
  3. Demonstrate academic integrity.
  4. Accept the consequences if the Honor Code is violated.

Parents will:

  1. Support the academic integrity of the school community.
  2. Become knowledgeable of the school-wide Honor Code.
  3. Provide a positive example for adhering to the Honor Code.
  4. Support the consequences if the Honor Code is violated.

Teachers will:

  1. Maintain and support the academic integrity of the school community.
  2. Have students write and/or sign the Honor Pledge on all assignments, tests and quizzes.
  3. Review the Honor Code during the first week of the school year and periodically throughout the year.
  4. Teach or review correct use of documentation when assigning work.
  5. Specify the types of collaboration that are acceptable and those that are not acceptable.
  6. Take immediate action when violations occur:
    • Counsel the student.
    • Contact the student’s parent/guardian.
    • Record a failing grade for the assignment with no opportunity for make-up work. (NOTE: Teacher definition of a failing grade for an Honor Code violation will be clearly stated on the syllabus at the beginning of the school year.)
    • Refer the violation to the Honor Council Chairperson.
    • Confer with the assistant principal if necessary.
    • Abide by the decision of the Honor Council.

Administrators will:

  1. Maintain and support the academic integrity of the school community
  2. Assure that all faculty, students, and parents adhere to the LBSS Honor Code.
  3. Maintain cumulative records of reported violations of the Honor Code.
  4. Administrators will take disciplinary action and administer fair consequences for Honor Code
  5. violations.

The Honor Pledge

“On my honor, I pledge that I have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance on this assignment or test.”

Lake Braddock Secondary School thanks the following schools for allowing us to use portions of their honor codes:

  • W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia
  • C. D. Hylton High School
  • Duluth High School, Duluth, Georgia
  • Potomac Senior High School, Woodbridge, Virginia