Honor Code Dbq

WCCS should adopt an honor code because it sets the standard for the students to live by, creates an environment where cheating is less likely to occur, and helps students develop habits which can benefit them later in life. The honor code can have wide spread effects on a school, ranging from increasing the individual integrity of students to improving the school’s overall atmosphere. The integrity of the students should be based on a central moral code or rule. Without a standard, anything can be considered correct since it was never clearly addressed as wrong. No communication of a school’s expectations leaves room for students to decide right from wrong based on their own moral standards. Standards can vary widely from person to person. Source C suggests that an honor code’s expectations can determine reality. The only way for everyone to abide by the same morals is for everyone to be held accountable to the same set of rules. A quote from Source B perfectly describes the reason for an honor code, as an honor code “provides students a clear explanation of the importance of behaving with integrity and the expectation that our resulting actions will increase trust and respect....”
Source F explains the results of a study in which two thirds of high school students reported seeing one or more cases of cheating in the last year. Source F also reveals that “there is growing evidence many students take these habits with them to college.” So, by setting the standard that lying and cheating are wrong early on in life, you can help prepare students and prevent them from forming bad habits. Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” By giving an honor code, the school can ensure that students are being taught moral values. These values can then be used by students both in and out of the