Academic+Honesty+Committee+member

=Reflection= I was asked to be a part of the Academic Honesty Committee working on developing an academic honesty policy for the high school. I participated on this committee in the past and was asked to join this group as a representative of the science department. I helped develop the draft of a policy and helped lead the discussions with the faculty and student senate groups.

As I reflect on my participation in this group, I find myself mostly frustrated. First of all, I reluctantly joined the committee because I felt that I was over committed. I was happy that we were able to develop a policy and bring it to the faculty for feedback. Then when we reached a standstill, it was incredibly frustrating. It was a lot of time and energy for us to develop a policy that we felt represented our school culture, held students best interests in mind and would help teachers maintain honest classroom cultures. For it to be stalled was frustrating. At this point, I'm not clear on our next steps. My hope would be that we not simply adopt a policy because time and energy was spent on it, but that we can reach a point that an academic policy can be set that helps both students and teachers.