Lake Norman Charter School provides a rigorous and comprehensive educational environment to develop students with a focus on college readiness, leadership, and social responsibility.

At Lake Norman Charter, the student body, parents, community, and staff cultivate a unique culture of partnership, trust, safety and pride. Together, we are LNC.

LNC provides and supports a challenging academic curriculum, empowering each student to realize her or his full academic potential.

LNC delivers a comprehensive educational environment, enabling personal growth through participation in extra-curricular activities, athletics, community service and LNC’s Leadership in Action Program.

LNC believes in the importance of global diversity and inclusivity, celebrating and embracing both what we have in common as well as what makes each of us unique.

LNC reveres honor, high expectations and responsible citizenship.

In compliance with LNC’s mission to learn, lead and serve; all members of the LNC community are expected to display good manners, show respect for others and their property, be honest, reliable and conform to the highest standards of behavior by following the LNC Honor Code. Furthermore:

All LNC students are required to:

• Read and sign the LNC Honor Code.
• Support and promote the LNC Honor Code and follow all LNC policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Be honest in all academic and social endeavors.
• Act with courtesy and consideration in all interactions with students, parents, faculty and staff at school and in the community.
• Treat school facilities and property with care and respect.
• Treat personal property and others’ property with respect.
• Uphold the LNC Honor Code while participating in all curricular and extra-curricular activities.
• Uphold the Honor Code while interacting with the community as a representative of LNC.
  
  

All LNC parents are required to:

• Read and sign the LNC Student Honor Code & Parent Expectations
• Support and promote the LNC Honor Code and follow all LNC policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Model the values and expectations required of students.
  
  

All LNC staff members are required to:

• Read and sign the LNC Employee Handbook.
• Support and promote the LNC Honor Code and follow all LNC policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Model and teach the values and expectations required of students and parents.
• Be fair, firm and consistent.
• Teach expectations and procedures.
  
  

All LNC board members are required to:

• Read and sign the LNC Honor Code.
• Support and promote the LNC Honor Code and follow all LNC policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Model the values and expectations required of students.
• Be fair, firm and consistent.
  
  

Honor Code violations include, but are not limited to, the following:

1.  Cheating, facilitating cheating or encouraging cheating:

• • Using another person’s work as your own on any test, quiz, homework or other assignment.
  • Asking other students to provide information such as questions posed or material covered on tests, quizzes or other assignments already taken or completed by the other student.
  • Allowing another student to copy your work, including homework, group work, class work, quizzes, tests and laboratory assignments.
  • Plagiarism (passing off another’s work or ideas as your own or intentionally failing to cite sources for information that is not widely known). Ignorance of proper citation procedures is not an acceptable excuse for failing to cite sources. Plagiarism includes excessive parental assistance on homework or projects.

2.  Forgery or falsification of documents
3.  Lying
4.  Aiding others who are violating the LNC Honor Code
5.  Taking property that does not belong to you without permission.

Violations of the LNC Honor Code will result in consequences regarded as appropriate by the teacher, school principal and/or assistant principal. The school administration reserves the right to administer consequences consistent with those outlined in the Student Behavior Code set forth herein.

HONOR CODE PLEDGE:

"I recognize that attending LNC is a privilege, and as a member of this community, I pledge to uphold and promote the pillars of honesty, integrity, respect and responsibility as outlined in the LNC honor code."