One of the main reasons as to why the honor code at Bartlett High School is lacking is due to the teachers not properly addressing it. Not only do teachers spend little or no time at all explaining “Academic Dishonesty,” the section itself in the student handbook is barely a paragraph long. Throughout my entire freshman year, plagiarism was addressed a few times in English class, but a full explanation of our honor code was never given. Surely, many students would give a similar response if they were to be asked how many times the honor code was addressed throughout their years at school. An article by Donald McCabe and Gary Pavela provides emphasis on this: “We believe it is significant that the highest levels of cheating are usually found
