Communication Policies and Late Submission and Academic Honesty Policies
Learn about The Sycamore’s different policies on late submission, academic honesty, and communication.
Communication Policies
The Sycamore communicates via meetings, email, Google Classroom, and chat on weekdays. Teachers are available for concerns.
- The Center coordinates and communicates with the students and parents through meetings, assemblies, letters, emails (via Gmail), the LMS (Google Classroom), Google Chat, and online forms.
- All official Center communication channels are open during weekdays, 800 AM - 4:30 PM.
- For any concerns or questions regarding any subject, students are encouraged to communicate with the corresponding subject teacher, or directly with their homeroom adviser.
Policies on Late Submission and Academic Honesty
The Sycamore notifies students and parents of late submissions with penalties and enforces strict rules against academic dishonesty, with specific sanctions outlined in the handbook.
- Students and parents will be notified (automatically via Google Classroom, and directly through email by the adviser and/or subject teacher), regarding late submissions.
- Any task finished late will be subject to a percentage deduction of 5% for every day of non-submission.
- Students are required to accomplish, and submit, all tasks given throughout each term as part of completing said term, regardless of the total percentage of deduction applied to any task. Non-submission of requirements will mean a grade of ZERO on that task.
- The Sycamore puts a premium on academic integrity. As such, students are expected to submit works that are purely of their own creation. Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, cheating, multiple submissions, misuse of academic materials, and complicity in any of these acts, are all considered instances of academic dishonesty, since they are likely to be committed in order to unfairly alter the students’ performance.
- Aside from the general consequences for offenses against Center's policies, The Sycamore Handbook also outlines specific sanctions in response to any infraction that directly affects the academic output of students. Once sufficient evidence has been gathered to confirm academic dishonesty, the following sanctions will be administered:
- The students both directly culpable and indirectly complicit will be given a score of zero for the activity involved.
- The submission thus nullified must be redone and resubmitted by the students involved, but with a reduced ceiling grade of 80%.
- The students’ character grades may also be affected corresponding to the nature of the infraction.
