Student/Parent Handbook - Braintree Public Schools

IV. Request for Teacher Change
A. Student discusses the request with the counselor. If the student desires, at
the conclusion of the conference, a Program Change Request form will be
completed.
B. Student obtains teacher and parent comments and signatures, and then
returns the form to the counselor.
C. A parent/student/teacher/counselor/head counselor/Director conference will be
arranged by the counselor to resolve the problem.
D. If agreement cannot be reached, the decision will be referred to the
Headmaster. All appropriate information will be forwarded to him.
E. Counselor will summarize the data and record the final decision in the
student’s temporary record file.
V. All requests for course changes and/or teacher changes must be discussed during
a student’s study period. Students may not schedule appointments with
counselors and/or administrators during regular class time.
VI.
Until the change has officially been made students are required to remain in the
originally scheduled class(es).
Cheating and Plagiarism
Any attempt to gain academic credit for knowledge or work not genuinely a student’s own
is considered cheating. Plagiarism is the copying or imitating of the language and ideas of
another and claiming them as one’s own. Students must follow the prescribed method of
citation. Failure to do so may also be viewed as plagiarism.
The penalty for cheating and/or plagiarism is total loss of credit (“0”) for any test or
assignment on which they were attempted. Please note that Braintree High School utilizes
the program “Turnitin” to detect any forms of plagiarism.
Plagiarism includes:
• Copying verbatim words, expressions, or ideas directly from another source
without giving proper credit.
• Paraphrasing written ideas from a source and rewriting in one’s own words without
attributing to the author.
• Adapting an idea from another source without giving proper credit.
• Downloading material from the Internet or any other source without citing that
source in full.
• Copying includes copying passages, sentences or parts of sentence.
• Purchasing material from the Internet or any other source.
Examinations
Mid-year and final examinations are given in all yearlong academic subjects. Each
exam will count as one tenth of the final year grade (or a total of twenty percent of
the final grade). Semester courses will have their final examinations administered
in January (for first semester courses) and June (for second semester courses).
Their exams will count as one fifth or twenty percent of the final grade.
All students are required to take all scheduled exams.
*In the event a student is absent on the day of an exam(s), the parent of that student must
provide a medical note or reason for that absence as outlined under the Excused Absence
Policy. Also, the parent must contact the student’s House Office by 9:00 AM of the exam
day to report the student absent.
Senior Final Exam Exemption Policy
Any senior at Braintree High School is eligible to be exempt from being required to
take the final exam (not mid-years) in any course (excluding AP courses) if the
following criteria are met:
• a B+ average or better – cumulative for all terms and January exam
• no more than three absences for fourth term
• policy would apply to second semester courses and year courses. English, Social
Studies, FCLS, and Business must link with first semester course. If no first
semester course, exemption criteria will apply to second semester course.
• students will be informed after the first week in April
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