Student Stereotypes

Today’s academic programs are always looking for ways to improve, many schools put an honor code in order, which is supposed to ensure every student’s safety and integrity of their work. Overall, honor codes do not benefit students because they create stereotypes for academic environments, therefore they should not be put in place. Stereotypes are simply defined as an over exaggerated idea of a person or group. There are two types of stereotypes, good and bad, good stereotypes are easily established by simply being a good person and are a lot to uphold. When that student can not uphold their great identity, they turn to cheating. On the other hand, bad stereotypes are created by one student doing something, such as cheating, and the whole group receiving that identity as a cheater. Honor codes easily create stereotypes and create an unfair environment for

The first days of school always decide who is a cheater and who’s the honest type. One way that these notions are made about a person is the way they act. Source C claims that, “As more of the population behaves like ‘honest’ types than normally would, increasing the impression that everyone is honest and raising still higher the expectation of being caught”. More students have become aware of the labeling in an academic environment so much that they will not be themselves and give a better impression than normally would. This gives the student environment the idea that they are not cheaters or vice versa. First impressions can be made many different ways, but every way makes a stereotype. Cheating in this type of environment raises the assumption of the people that are surrounding you, thus making it harder to get caught cheating. An example of a bad academic environment is someone coming to a conclusion about you by a first impression, but that isn’t going to change. Therefore, you have to abolish honor codes in order to have a true academic