Honor Codes Should Be Revised

The honor codes- A system of rules with set disciplinary actions- implemented in my school by faculty should be revised so that students can contribute to the development of the type of academic environment they think they need so that everyone in the community completes their work fairly- creating a culture of academic morality.Also so that people who chose not to are punished to an extent that their peers would find most reasonable, for any particular violation that could occur.
A few key reasons that honor codes should be revised are that students have not properly perceived the entire roll of honor codes in their schools. A student survey distributed in fall 2007 and spring 2008 at a small public university is shown in source E. A , according to this source around half of the students agreed that they did not think
Student revision of codes would also initiate a better more trusting relationship between students and faculty. “Implicit in an honor code is a belief in the integrity of human beings; it also provides students a clear explanation of the importance of behaving with the integrity and the expectation that our resulting actions will increase the trust and respect in the LA [Lawrence Academy] community.” wrote Alyssa Vangelli(source B). Revisions that students agree with would easily allow more students to contribute to the establishment and enforcement of honor codes. “... a more important factor seems to be the peer culture that develops on honor code campuses- a culture that makes most forms of serious cheating socially unacceptable among the majority of students. Many students would simply be embarrassed to have the other students find out they were cheating” said the authors of source