Honor Code: The Showcase

Honor codes certainly exhibit an outstanding appearance to the school and its administrative people. A "culture of academic integrity" slowly develops as Source C strongly claims. However, certain schools portray such enforced rules like "needing to report other students" or "writing a pledge of honor on every piece of work submitted"(Source B) on students and I think that this would rather drive some students off course. When people are exposed to very strict rules, they tend to rebel or resist the rules. Students are trapped in a place like one of a glass exhibition, only having to adjust to the school's rules and policies. Some students might even go as far to think that their schools only care about them for their academic status and how they represent their school name to others around the world. Everything's all about the ranks and status,right? Their hard struggles and attempts in schoolwork and other things can one day break their mental minds. Cheating is everywhere these days and students are aware that it's a bad thing to do. Honor codes enforce the rule: no cheating, plagiarizing, or stealing. Sure enough, honor codes must be in place within schools, but revising some might be the best alternative to choose for students to not stray away from the "right things to do" in an educational manner. Taking away completely or enforcing strict rules upon students are both the wrong way to deal with students who make up the majority of the school itself. Taking the middle ground position, I believe that students would best fit into a revised honor code system so that they can go through school life in a much more alleviated manner. Schools should try to be filled with different colors and shades of uniqueness rather than focusing on statistical numbers and scores that students earn to "support" their school.