Honor Code

At Memorial Middle School, we are dedicated to upholding the standards of honesty, integrity, and fairness that are set forth in our school vision statement and in the district handbook.

Each student must know that he or she will be evaluated on the basis of his or her own accomplishments and all other students are evaluated correspondingly. An Honor Code has been established at Memorial Middle School to assure such knowledge and trust. The Honor Code is a simple statement supporting our belief that an honorable student does not lie, cheat, or steal.

  • Students will not steal anything: books, notes, chromebooks, telecommunication devices (phones, airpods/earbuds, smart glasses, smart watches, etc), homework, equipment, answers or ideas;
  • Students will not lie about themselves or others;
  • Students will neither cheat (give or receive information or help on a test, possess of any unauthorized material during a test, copy another student’s assignment or knowingly allowing another unauthorized student to copy from his/her assignment, submit duplicate work, or have someone else complete an assignment on behalf of the student) nor plagiarize (use another’s ideas, products, or content generate by artificial intelligence) in any form on any assignment, activity, quiz or test;
  • Students will neither give nor solicit information about the contents of any graded material or activity (Note that the SBISD Code of Conduct prohibits both the giving and receiving of unauthorized aid on any assignment/test)

Students, faculty, and administrators are equally charged with the responsibility for promoting and enforcing this Honor Code.

Violations of the Honor code should be reported to the teacher, counselor, or grade level principal and are considered a Level II/III offense (see SBISD Code of Conduct). The consequences for academic dishonesty will be a zero on the assignment in question and a referral to the grade level principal.

In its simplest form, the Memorial Middle School Honor Code requires that on tests, quizzes, and other such assignments as determined by the teacher, the student will write out and sign the following pledge: On my honor, I have not violated the Honor Code on this test (or other type of assignment).