In the pursuit of education, many schools and academies have found themselves subject to the same issue: cheating. Plagiarism, unauthorized assistance with work, and all forms of cheating have been engaged in a great war against actual learning, which schools have been fighting to counteract. Some institutions have decided to implement honor codes, and legislatures to instill anti-cheating rules. Although reports of these codes have described improvements, honor codes are unnecessary; they don’t support actual honor, they aren’t taken seriously by their own enforcers, and they aren’t even the most likely cause of decreased cheating in schools. Removing them entirely, would filter out a pointless system. Honor systems don’t support actual honor, …show more content…
Needing to incentivize or even force others to act honorably in their work isn’t actually honorable; not for the enforcers nor the affected. A true system of honor places trust in the subjects that they will abide by the rules, based on their own honor, not negative reinforcement. Source A, a satirical English comic, agrees with this prospect, sarcastically stating in its own words that “a spycam can greatly improve the honor code.” Yes, heavy measures of enforcement can cause more people to follow orders, but it once again removes the aspect of honor; what makes the code different from a regular law system? Without honor—the honor code. is just a code. It shouldn’t have to be disguised or portrayed as something unique and …show more content…
My own school, Weddington High, in order to motivate students to report to one another, has to resort to turning students into bounty hunters, offering financial compensation to report others to officers, which still has little advantage. The honor system is built on a pillar of student-led self-sufficiency, a pillar, that more often than not, doesn’t care about functioning. Chief among the various fallacies of school honor systems, is the possibility that in schools who experience decreased cheating, an honor system may not be the actual cause. Assuming that a school with the code doesn’t adopt the stereotype seen in source A’s comic, a controlling, authoritarian approach that constantly monitors students, all of the sources that have cited decreased cheating, share a common key-phrase that doesn’t have to have anything to do with the honor code: “environment.” Decreased cheating stems from promoting the “responsibility to perform honestly in the school environment,” as source B argues; values of honesty “made Jefferson’s school a richer academy,” claims another student-led In all of the academies’ descriptions of their honor, the honor code isn’t the absolute root of the cause; the environment
In today’s society many countries and even citizens of the United States question the U.S. government’s decision to get in involved in nuclear warfare. These people deemed it unnecessary and state that the U.S. is a hypocrite that preaches peace, but causes destruction and death. Before and during World War II the U.S. was presented with a difficult decision on whether or not to develop and use the atomic bomb.
In the colonization period, the urge to conquer foreign territories was strong, and many lands in the Western Hemisphere were conquered. With the colonization of these areas, a mercantilist relationship was formed between the conquered civilization and the maternal country. A major part of this was the restriction of exportation of native resources only to the mother country as well as the banning of trading with colonies of other countries. In turn, there was an increasing in the number of smuggling activities during the time. According to a British sailor named William Taggart in 1760, the illegal smuggling of goods into these areas had a positive impact because it brought prosperity to the people in Monte Christi, as there were only one hundred poor families. Likewise, Dominica governor John Orde praised the trading because it created prices much lower than with its maternal country. However, British admiral David Tyrell, Roger Elletson, Dominica governor John Orde, and a 1790 Bahaman newspaper report all had similar views on the harmful effects and corruptness present in smuggling. Despite this, physician George Lipscomb and British Lieutenant Governor Thomas Bruce had neutral opinions on the matter, and only stated what they witnessed in the process.
...e, however in support of changing the honor code system in terms of the expulsion penalty at all times as well as the tolerance portion of the penalty. I feel that there are many circumstances in which expulsion is extreme and unnecessary especially when it has to do with tolerance of an honor code violation.
More and more students are showing bad academic integrity for numerous reasons. To put a stop to this, I believe that teachers and parents should make a bigger deal about being honest in their work, rather than pressuring students to end up on top. Students need to learn how to take pride in their own work. They need to realize that being honest in your achievements is much more rewarding than achieving something higher, but cheating your way through
Honor codes or systems have been established at many schools across the nation, including Paloma Valley High School. These rules dictate what the school defines as ethical and yet not every student in attendance upholds these rules. Paloma Valley High School’s honor codes regarding education require maintenance as students avoid enforcement of the guidelines, meaning unethical behaviors prevail in a rather honest environment.
“The South! The Poor South! God knows what will become of her now!” (Doc E) These were the last words of John C. Calhoun on March 31st, 1850. As seen from these words, the Civil War was predictable following the Mexican-American War. Although it was a great victory that almost doubled America in size, rage and fear were brought upon the nation from sectionalism, which set off the start of the Civil War. From James K Polk’s election to Southern Carolina’s succession (from the union), the nation went plummeting, no matter who tried to preserve the union (Abraham Lincoln’s main goal before Civil War was to preserve the union no matter what).
Honor Code has evolved over the years and its becoming more strict in its ways and flaws. “Taggert accused the administration of using the code to punish rather than to help students improve themselves” (Bergera). It lists of forbidden acts are antiquated and invade the students’ sense of privacy without truly defining the quality of honor. Other seemingly arbitrary codes such as no herbal tea, no short skirts and no beards are strictly enforced. Even Jesus Christ could not have attended BYU without shaving first. As a m...
In “Why Colleges Should Ditch Honor Codes” Susan Greenberg is trying to inform the audience as to why society does not require the honor code anymore. The rules that lie behind this regulation are becoming outdated and more students are finding themselves punished for disobeying it. A lot of honor code schools are trying to get rid of this process because it only brings the students more pressure. Typically, students that are in honor code schools tend to cheat more than schools that do not possess it. If a student is enrolled in a more prestigious school, he/she is more tempted to cheat in order to maintain his or her good grades. Greenberg explains a situation that took place in Stanford University that led more than 100 students in academic
The term, “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do” sets an unprecedented standard, setting an individual up for success. This Creed stands for more than just the military aspect of West Point, it translates into the daily lives of cadets from all walks of life. The Honor code unifies the common morals of, “not [lying], [cheating], or [stealing]”, in order to develop a moral group of individuals well versed in restraint from common faults their peers become engrossed in, building a strong team that is renowned worldwide for their rigor and moral compass not “[tolerating] those who do”.
Donald L. McCabe and Linda Klebe Trevino, "Academic Dishonesty: Honor Codes and Other Contextual Influences", The Journal of Higher Education 64, no. 5, (September–October 1993) 4. Kenneth J. Smith, Jeanette A. Davy, and Debbie Easterling, "An Examination of Cheating and its Antecedents Among Marketing and Management Majors", Journal of Business Ethics 50, no. 1, (March 2004) 5. Richard A. Fass, "By Honor Bound: Encouraging Academic Honesty", Educational Record 67, no. 4 (Fall 1986) 6.
...y, I’ll go next week. You do the reading this week, I’ll do it next week.” (24) These students and others usually do not find sharing work to be a form of cheating. They simply help each other. However, colleges with honor codes feel that by placing students in an honest environment, they are more likely to be honest themselves.
An honor code can affect students’ behavior positively by the student knowing between what is right and what is wrong; that builds a principle that student will follow for the rest of their life. Honor codes reduce the amount of cheating that is occurred in classrooms, this is very beneficial since cheating is looked at very negatively since it is a very dishonest way of showing your knowledge. Also, if a student has cheated their whole way through high school, their life would be much more difficult. An honor code not only gives a school a better name, but it also shows that the kids that come out of the school are honest and hard workers. We need honest hard workers for several important jobs, such as a doctor, etc. If people were cheating and did not learn what they were supposed to know for this job, that can become very harmful. An honor code is necessary to make the world a better
From a young age we are taught the differences between right and wrong, but as we get older the line between moral and immoral is often blurred. Things that were once thought of as unacceptable are now perfectly fine in our minds. Have you ever seen anyone cheat on an assignment or exam? Do you know anyone that’s been expelled from school for cheating? What if it was discovered that a U.S. senator plagiarized his college thesis paper? Imagine if it got out that one of the most respected universities in the U.S. was involved in a huge fraud scandal that involved thousands of students. Academic cheating is a terrible offense because it is unethical, self-degrading, and can be detrimental to the learning environment.
The failure of our education system is demonstrated by the fact that students are sacrificing their integrity for a handful of points on an assessment. Despite the efforts of honor codes, scholars have become numb to their purpose; they break such a promise of honesty to themselves, their teachers, and their peers without second thought. America’s children have lost the value of trust, compromising invaluable relationships with excuses regarding societal pressure and their excessive workloads. We cannot let such actions continue; if educators continue to tolerate cheating, our world may transition into one socially, economically, and politically operated by dishonest individuals. Society’s obsession with creating good academic performers has led to the subsequent creation of deceitful children and the possibility of a fraudulent