Considering the recent formation of Enloe's "honor code committee", I've decided to write an honor code of my own. Please add, edit, and share.
-The Real Student Honor Code-
The Cardinal Rule: Unless someone’s well being is at risk, never turn in another student for breaking a rule. Ever.
Put your fellow students first in all situations, then teachers, then administration.
Always give your friends information about an upcoming assignment or test unless specifically told otherwise by a teacher.
Always let someone copy your homework if they’ve let you copy their homework in the past.
Cough when someone’s cell phone rings in class. You’re not fooling anyone, but it’s still fun.
Never tell a teacher that a student you saw in an earlier class is skipping.
Sneak underclassmen and people without lunch passes off campus as often as you can.
Don’t plagiarize blatantly. You’re making the rest of us look bad.
He who collaborates gets an A.
Ignore class rank. We’re all in this together.
It will all be over soon. Make the most of it.
Anonymous
10:39:21 PM
26 comments:
Here here!
Agreed!
"The Cardinal Rule: Unless someone’s well being is at risk, never turn in another student for breaking a rule. Ever."
Except once in a class as I was passing in a quiz, the asshole in front of me copied it, then turned it in and asked me if I read the chapter. He had been an asshole to pretty much everyone before that, so...
That sucker got nailed. :D
I second!
wow. is everyone on here so cynical?
whoa. you guys don't have an open campus?
weird...
An open campus? Do tell us more.
On another note, this pretty much sums up Enloe society.
I'm pretty much for everything except for the lax attitude towards plagarism. It is pretty bastardly to steal someone else's work and call it your own. Plus, it only takes, what, five minutes to cite something? Really guys, take the time to learn how to write on your own. Homework copying and collaboration isn't so much an issue--as long as you /learn/ the material, who cares how you do the busy work? But plagarism is a little bigger than that.
I think that an open campus is a good idea because then people don't have to sneak off during lunch and if you really don't feel like doing work you can just walk to starbucks during a free period adn it is easier to ditch because it is not weird to see someone walking through the halls during class even though it isn't that big of a problem.
i am giving you a heart: ♥ because that is so true, and i wish everyone at Enloe felt that way.
yeah, in colorado our school has an open campus and there's a mall right near by so during lunch you can go to a cafe or whatever or just hang out, it's a really nice policy and it lets us have some freedom which is important!
(jealous)
I want an open campus so much. Let's add that on. :D
But I love this. So much. :D
Well, think about it this way: Just how un-open is our campus here at Enloe?
We have 2 (or 3) rent-a-cops and 1 (or 2) city police to patrol the entire campus, plus maybe a couple administrators.
Don't try to tell me you don't know somebody who's gotten off campus without a pass, or without being an upperclassman, or by being smuggled in a car trunk.
Just because we don't have an extremely wide variety of local eateries within 5 minutes of school doesn't mean we don't have freedom.
By the way, our lunch periods are 44 minutes long, for those who don't know Enloe well (or at all).
Ten, or perhaps even fifteen, minutes of driving one way is still close enough to eat comfortably and make it back before the next class begins. So really, the options are wider than some people lead themselves to believe.
I hate this mentality. I think the fact that students think like this, as well as the enthusiastic responses this post has recieved, is gross.
Now, I have no ethics to speak of. But the thing is, this approach to life simply doesn't work; however, people think it does, and it translates into their adult life. "Unless someone's well being is at risk, never turn in another student for breaking a rule. Ever." To say the least, no one's "well being" was put at risk by the Watergate break-in...
But it was a violation of the law! People's privacy was at risk, their rights. And boy, did the White House try to cover it up. One might say they followed this "honor code." The same thing's happening in the government now. No way Dick is gonna reveal that his friends in congress who are supposed to represent us (the people)are really representing the lobbyists who pay them a lot of money and give them lots of perks. In a direct way, none of our well-beings are at risk. But politicians aren't gonna come out and say "There are some problems that need to be worked out."
Of course not. They're too comfortable in their little K Street World to do their jobs. No doubt that started off as "innocuous" as cheating on a test or skipping a class.
When you do things like that, when you do things like "always letting someone copy your homework who let you copy his or hers in the past," you promote the idea that it's okay to slack off, to not do your work... there are no extenuating circumstances bad enough. If you didn't get the work done, you don't get to copy it. You just don't turn it in. You should never expect to get something for nothing, because that mentality DOES NOT WORK. Once you grow up, get into the workplace, it's not gonna happen that way. Life doesn't work that way.
Ugh. This is disgusting. I got a little carried away, this might not make sense. I don't care.
Don't sneak underclassmen off campus.
They're underclassmen, they don't need to be off campus.
I've heard this sort of thing from a lot of Enloe students. But to support this someone has to make a sacrifice. If you let someone copy you or tell someone about a pop quiz (or what is on that quiz... etc.) then you personally suffer, especially in the long term. We are not all in this together. Only one person gets to be valedictorian, and the distance between people in class rank is very small. If you give everyone you know an advantage over you, then eventually you lose.
I do agree with these three things from the honor code: That students should come first, you don't tell when someone has been skipping, and you should sneak people off campus as much as possible.
But most upperclassmen I know do all of that anyway.
"Now, I have no ethics to speak of."
Then no talking for you. You know you've done almost all of these at one time or another.
"But the thing is, this approach to life simply doesn't work; however, people think it does"
It's been working fine for my entire high school career, and I'm not going to pretend that I do things any differently (Student Honor Code or no). Just because people -say- they will follow arbitrary rules doesn't make it so.
As for Watergate (which everyone saw as wrong except the president and a few cohorts, if not he wouldn't have gotten in trouble) this case is completely different. We're just being civilly disobedient towards a few arbitrary rules and all being better off for it as a group. I guess MLK was breaking rules too to fight against a system he didn't agree with and work for change. Don't we have the same right?
You can't possibly say that our administration is infallible and that there rules are somehow divine morality. I'm expected to drive off campus for lunch and then eat it in a random driveway just off campus because I'm not allowed to eat it in my parking spot. Try and justify that. According to the rules I'm not even allowed to pee without a piece of paper giving me permission.
"You should never expect to get something for nothing"
Of course not. Would you let someone copy your homework everyday?? No, go back and read the rule. If you both learn the material for a class but sometimes split the busy work when one of you doesn't have the time for it, then you both do better and don't have to suffer from the unreasonable expectations of a school this competitive.
As for the real world, I -wish- that
a lot of these rules would follow us for the rest of our life. If businesses shared information instead of hoarding it from their competitors we'd all be a lot better off.
"Life doesn't work that way."
The most important thing to understand is that school ISN'T real life. Grades and class ranks and multiple choice tests are all little fabrications meant to pit students against on each other and see who rises to the top, like a sick, academic death match. Well I'm not biting. By bending these artificial rules all students are going to end up being raised as a group, and in the end what are the downsides?
No one is saying we should run red lights because they're a conspiracy of the man. We just want it to be clear that there is no reason for high school to be any more stressful or difficult than it already is by working against each other.
1. Well, most rules anyways. Agreed
2. Ditto
3. I tell them it's coming and how easy it is, but divulging extra information just harms me...unless of course they divulge something about one of my classes in exchange.
4.Hah true, but only for busy work worsheets that you couldn't get done cause you had to write that 20 page essay you've been putting off forever.
5. Most teachers don't care.
6. Agreed, it's their choice to skip if they want to.
7. If they're cool underclassmen that is.
8. Ugh, I hate plagiarizing. I mean, stating an idea without proper MLA citation is find, but just ripping whole paragraphs out of essays and stuff is buillshit.
9. Collaboration is always good, if it's true collaboration.
10. Hell no, we're all in this for ourselves. I don't want to start the debate again, but I like my rank.
"but divulging extra information just harms me"
In what way?
"But to support this someone has to make a sacrifice."
But if everyone is willing to give equally then everyone benefits. You can keep everything to yourself and have to work through every piddly assignment on your own while everyone else is being cooperative and working together and it's you who's going to get left in the dust.
"Don't sneak underclassmen off campus.
They're underclassmen, they don't need to be off campus."
Why? Just so you can feel better because you can go off and they can't? This is the kind of egotistical, all-for-me thinking that we're trying to get rid of.
wow thats awesome... i actually wanted to be part of the honor code process but then i did something terrible.. i cheated... and i realized... wow that didn't harm anyone - i like ur honor code.. im not avdocating cheating but ... sometimes at Enloe to keep up u got to do things ... keep up... or go home.. god i sound like a serious sports fan but u get wat im saying.. nice honor code we need to stick up for our fellow students.. we're really all we got...
Yeah, honestly that comment confused me too. Why do we care if they're underclassmen. I mean if they're annoying and horrible and you don't want to be with them, then don't sneak them out of school. But if nothing is wrong with them besides being young, is that really a reason to discriminate?
I've noticed a suprising amount of tolerance towards underclassmen this year from the juniors and seniors and I'm pretty excited that we're slowing the whole class-ist thinking that I faced when I was an underclassman.
This isn't a matter of discrimination, it's more a matter of earned priviledge.
Underclassmen have less of a workload, have done less work, and contributed less to their schools than upperclassmen.
Upperclassmen have earned the priviledge of being allowed to eat off campus.
Additionally, discrimination by age is very valid, espescially for those under 18. The difference between a sophomore and a junior is vast. I personally feel that every year of my life that i've added i've grown dramatically as a person. I think about things very differently, from when i was a sophomore, or even when i started junior year. So pretty much Underclassmen aren't ready.
Personally, i'm an upperclassman, i find a majority of the underclassmen annoying and immature. I want them to stay on campus, so that I can leave them behind.
Going off-campus is not some privilege for having survived a few more months of existence than somebody else. Going off-campus is something that your parents give you when they're feeling nice and they sign the lunch pass.
As far as the statements made about underclassmen go, I can agree with them sometimes. (I'm an underclassman myself.) Then again, I also think those statements could apply to upperclassmen just as often. They could apply to adults. "Annoying and immature"? Of course. That could apply to anyone.
The graph of age versus -insert character trait here- is not linear. Age and maturity cannot be related in such a direct manner. Each person is unique in their growth and development, and blanket statements cannot be so easily applied in a practical situation.
I understand that the administration must create an arbitrary Age Line in an attempt at some control, which is completely reasonable. Nobody expects them to interview every student in order to determine "readiness" to go off-campus. However, that Age Line does not indicate a truth about reality. Not all underclassmen are useless idiots; not all upperclassmen are hardworking contributors to Enloe society.
The age line tends to follow the majority trend in legal driving age and general maturity level.
While some underclassmen may be psychologically scarred, or inexplicably mature, most are appropriately developing, and need to have the time to do that.
The age line is neither arbitrary nor weak. It makes sense if you actually think about all the facts involved.
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