Honor Code Research Paper

One of the main problems with class and school would be cheating and plagiarising other peoples work. Some people feel that a honor code at our school would help reduce or even get rid of these things. I, on the other do not believe that a honor code at Victor Valley would be an effective way of eliminating cheating and plagiarising. One main component of cheating is if the person can get away with it. As a comical cartoon by Aaron Bacall says “Recent Research Has Shown That a spycam Can Greatly Improve the Honor Code”. This pokes fun at the fact that there is no real way to enforce the school honor code, of course there will be was less cheating if the people are being constantly watched. The only real way to enforce this is to rely on the students to watch each other, which means you basically have to rely on people's friends to report them, especially in age where “snitching” or, telling on someone, is frowned upon. In a five year study by Sally Sledge, and Pam Pringle shows that only eight percent of people said they would report one of their fellow students for cheating, plagiarizing, or stealing. That is a very low amount of people that would …show more content…
As Jennifer Dirmeyer, and Alexander Cartwright said in their newspaper “especially Harvard students -- are skeptical that signing a piece of paper will suddenly cause a cheater to change his ways.” This shows that even if you sign a piece of paper, this doesn't really hold you to anything, only your word which depends on the person how important that is. Chris Kahn said in his article on The University of Virginia “But even here, where honor is so well defined and policed by an elite student committee, plagiarism has become a problem.” No matter what kind of code you have, there is no way to enforce it, or to rely on the student to follow it, especially here at