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Honor Code Synthesis Essay

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Implemented since the beginning of a student's first days of education, the honor code has stuck to every essential stage of a student’s education. While an honor code dictates a student to remain academically honest, the honor code has not always been follow through. Honor codes should not be established in my school or any at all, as it does not reduce academic dishonesty, can create tensions between students and the punishments toward breaking the honor code is too strict. The honor code must be eliminated as it does not reduce student dishonesty. For instance, According to Source E, in a student survey with 275 responses over 65% of students had discussed the honor code during the school year, but over 40% of students admitted to having …show more content…

In Source B, Many Senate members had recognized that to have a trusting environment, an honor code would need to be set in place as it would recognize and affirm a student’s belief in integrity, and create comprehension for the importance of maintaining integrity, thus resulting in a trustworthy environment. (Source B). Admittedly so, maintaining an honor code would seem to help create a trustworthy environment. With the idea that the student already recognizes to remain truthful, it makes sense that with this recognition the student would choose to be truthful. Although, an honor code could help create a trustworthy environment, the idea of just using that is not strong of a foundation as creating it requires many other factors. Just because a student body signs a form stating they shall follow a new set of rules, it does not mean a sense a trust will just formulate. Along with an honor code not being enough to create a trusting environment, it may even create tensions between students. In Source B, it states that,”…”. Students are obligated by the honor code to report any signs of a student’s plagiarizing. To mandate students to report each other would only cause friction to rise between each student as they would quickly lose trust of one another and close ranks. Besides that, any student who reports someone and be revealed would

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