TAS Upper School AUP Proposal

Our rationale for revisiting the US AUP document was manifold. The original document looked as if it had been cobbled together quickly from a variety of sources. It was wordy, repetitively redundant, tonally variant, too long, negative rather than positive, and ultimately, lawyer friendly but not very student friendly. We decided that there was no need to reinvent the semantic wheel so we looked to various universities AUP policies as guidelines. We’ve attributed those sections that we paraphrased or used directly. Our goal was to reorganize the points in the original document worth saving and aligning them with the school’s four values. We removed some items that have been controversial and somewhat inconsistently enforced (primarily gaming) with the hope that their absence might invite a reaction from the administration. We were thus able to reduce a 3 1/2 page original to a single page which could be signed on the bottom.