Honor Code In American High School

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Many schools have developed and brought the honor code to there school throughout the years. However, students today proceed to cheat and plagiarize on many assignments. Therefore, the honors code is a useless code to try and control students.
Though the honors code has been around for a long time, it still continues to be left in the dark by students. Donald McCabe states, “high levels of cheating that exist in many American high schools, with roughly two thirds of students... cheated in the last year.”(source F) Cheating is one of the biggest rules to break within the honors code. However, students still continue to do what they please. Alyssa Vangelli informs us, “Students did not fully understand the role of an honor code.”(source B)

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