NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY
Pope Francis Preparatory School admits academically qualified students of any race, color,
gender, national/ethnic origin to all rights, privileges, programs and activities accorded or made
available to students at the school. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender,
national/ethnic origin in the administration of educational policies, scholarship or financial aid
programs, athletic or other school-administered programs.
ACADEMIC INFORMATION
Students attending Pope Francis Preparatory School commit themselves to a rigorous program of
studies that cultivates academic excellence. They must recognize that academics are their primary
responsibility as students, and they must not act in any way that undermines the academic
environment of themselves or their classmates.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Pope Francis Preparatory School demands the strictest honesty from our students in their various
academic tasks. Assignments, papers, computer programs, tests and coursework are the core of
the educational process. Students are required to complete their own work. No student shall
allow his or her paper, assignment, project or program in outline or finished form to be copied
and submitted as the work of another; nor shall a student prepare a written assignment or program
for another student to submit as that student’s work. A student may not submit his or her own
paper, assignment, project or computer program for credit if it has been or is being used to fulfill
the requirements of another course. All work that a student submits for any assignment or
assessment must be that student’s own original work and not compiled, drafted or created by
anyone or anything else, in any manner. All work must include proper credit and citations to the
original source in accordance with academic convention and the teacher’s instructions.
● Plagiarism. Plagiarism means the presentation by a student of the work of another person
as his or her own. It includes wholly or partially copying, translating, or paraphrasing
without acknowledgement of the source. The wording of a student’s paper or computer
program is taken as his or her own work, paragraphs, sentences, or even key phrases
clearly copied from a book, article, essay, lecture, newspaper, program, another student’s
paper, notebook or program, or any other source, may be included only if presented as
quotations and the source acknowledged. Similarly, since the ideas expressed in a paper,
report, or computer program are accepted as originating with the student, a paper or
program that paraphrases ideas taken from a book, article, essay, lecture, newspaper,
program, another student’s paper, notebook, or program, or any other source may not be
submitted unless each paraphrased source is properly cited. Students should be prepared
up to one month beyond the due date of a paper or program to submit all notes, drafts.
● Cheating is when a student uses illicit materials for an academic advantage. This can
include copying from another student’s examination paper or allowing another to copy
from one’s own paper during an examination. Using unpermitted material, “cheat sheets''
notes, texts, calculators, smart phones, etc. during an examination. If study materials are
allowed for completion of the assignment, quiz, test or exam the instructor will make an
explicit statement of authorization for their use in the class syllabus or rubric for that
assessment. Revising, without the instructor’s knowledge, and resubmitting any