Hotchkiss High School Honor Code

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Not everything is supposed to be for everyone. There is not a lot of evidence that an honor code can change your school in such a way to make it necessary. In our school i don't think that our students would support and follow an honor code which would make irrelevant. I do not think that Hotchkiss High School should have an honor code some reasons being that i don't think that kids at our school would abide by its rules.
To begin with i think that the honor code would cause more problems at Hotchkiss High because as Vangelli states “students did not fully understand the role of the honor code; many saw it as another rule to obey”. I think that this statement applies to hotchkiss high school because if we don't like something we are going to keep doing what we want to do. Also i think that the honor code would cause more problems because some kids would be to serious about it and get the other kids in trouble and then the other kids would start to bully those kids and make the school worse. On of the biggest reasons why i don't think we …show more content…
Also Dirmeyer writes that “However, honor codes don't always work. Mr. McCabe says that their success depends on a “culture of academic integrity” that leads students to take enforcement of the rules seriously”. I don't think that our school has the culture of academic integrity because when i think of our school i think of a chill environment because we don't get a lot of tension in it and were all nice to each other for the most

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