Posted on 12/02/2008 6:51:45 AM PST by truthkeeper
American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more at "alarming rates," a study of nearly 30,000 high school students concluded Monday.
The attitudes and conduct of some 29,760 high school students across the United States "doesn't bode well for the future when these youngsters become the next generation's politicians and parents, cops and corporate executives, and journalists and generals," the non-profit Josephson Institute said.
In its 2008 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, the Los Angeles-based organization said the teenagers' responses to questions about lying, stealing and cheating "reveals entrenched habits of dishonesty for the workforce of the future..."
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Jeeze, with a title like that, you think they where talking about teenagers or something..
It all depends on the definition of "lie, cheat, and steal." /sarc
Seriously, though. America has no moral compass any more, so the statistics in this article aren't that much of a shocker.
Well DUH!!! They needed a study for this garbage? Teens lying to their parents, cheating, stealing....BUSH’S fault!
Nope. Here’s the “future leaders” pool.
Sounds like we’re raising a bumper crop of politicians.
Some 93 percent of students indicated satisfaction with their own character and ethics, with 77 percent saying that "when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know."
Of course they are - after all they are worried about global warming.
Anonymously!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Even humanity.
The future is already here, these types of kids have been turning into leaders for decades, denying accountability and ruining the ethical underpinnings that once held this country together. Witness Clinton, who (barf alert) “taught” all middle schoolers that oral sex isn’t sex, or Teddy K, who taught a generation that you can get away with manslaughter if you know the right people.
And on and on.....
Parents work long hours, few people go to church.
Where do we expect kids to learn how to be decent humans???
When everyone defines what is right and good for themselves, they invariably define their own behavior as right and good. This is the goal of the post-modernist movement.
And how would you expect teens to act today when over half the country subscribes to an ideology that promotes the flagrant defiant violation of all of God’s commandments?
... In other late breaking developments, water is wet, fire is hot and flies like crap like this study ...
... Film at 11!!!
This comes with the me, me, me mentality. The teenagers of today have got to realize that the world doesnt revolve around them.
so America’s youth IS corrupt-well I guess that all depends on what the meaning of the word “IS” is.
Well.. when they see politicians stealing elections; their sports idols cheat by taking performance-enhancing drugs; parents cheat on each other — it’s all reflective of society in general. What do we expect???
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Well sure. And when you get caught, you just get bailed out!
They’re patterning Paulson.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And who can blame them. I don’t suppose any of the scumbags who tanked our economy while walking off with millions is losing any sleep over it.
but we can’t have prayer in the schools. nope, can’t teach them anything about G-d or the Bible. Don’t want to confuse or offend anyone.
The ‘Grand Theft Auto’ generation.
The highest authority on earth is not the authority derived from human laws. By what authority can we hold kids accountable to rules flounted and ignored by their parents?
“Millenials” are the laziest, most inept generation in American history, and it looks like the next group is even worse. Just peachy for the future of this nation.
This is very disturbing.......I fault the parents for a gross lack of parenting.
What’s new? they’re Democrats. Not much change there.
And this is a surprise? What else can society expect when anyone with any standards is labeled “judgmental.” “Judging” is the only sin in this society.
Ping for the “Another reason to homeschool” list.
I don’t want my kids socialized by these kids!
I kind of lost track of the breakdown after “Generation Z.” Or is that the same group?
Boy, you got that right.
An overwhelming majority, 83 percent, of public school and private religious school students admitted to lying to their parents about something significant, compared to 78 percent for those attending independent non-religious schools.”
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Tough to make sense of that statement. Are they saying that 83% of both public and private religious school students admitted to lying to parents or did they lump the two groups together to come up with the 83%? Seems odd that both groups would independently generate the same percentage.
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“Cheating in school continues to be rampant and it’s getting worse,” the study found. Amongst those surveyed, 64 percent said they had cheated on a test, compared to 60 percent in 2006. And 38 percent said they had done so two or more times.
Despite no significant gender differences on exam cheating, students from non-religious independent schools had the lowest cheating rate, 47 percent, compared to 63 percent of students attending religious schools.”
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Interesting they don’t give the public school numbers for cheating. However, they break out the independent religious school numbers against the other groups when the religious schooling numbers are higher (worse).
If one were to accept the numbers in the article it appears that religious schooling tends to make one more prone to lie and cheat. It would interesting to see their sampling methodologies.
That's funny...I had the same thought. My suspicion is that they lumped both groups together because the distinction between two groups was significant, and they needed cover to water down the public school results.
Just a feeling.
Agreed. In any event, the results are not exactly comforting.
It would be nice to blame secularism, but the numbers for students attending religious schools were rather high.
You are spot-on!!!
And attorneys.
And what about fornicating, doping, and having abortions?
Brilliant!
It isn’t about “honesty” it is about boasting. They don’t see anything wrong with what they’ve done.
Celebrate sin. The Homosexuals do.
Because they don’t see lying, cheating and stealing as a particularly bad thing. They’re not embarrassed about it.
Studies have shown that most career criminals have much higher self-esteem than average, not lower, as you’d think.
Self-esteem is a good thing in its proper proportion and when warranted, but nowadays it’s like the child obesity thing-nutrition is necessary, but the wrong kind and in excess causes problems.
One salient point-when some formerly anti-USA baby boomers sang “God Bless America” after 9/11, or prayed, started attending church after then or some other crisis in their lives, they were reaching back to use what they had learned “back in the day”, when grown-ups were in charge and taught them, and patriotism, morals, or religion were not bad things. However, lots of later generations can’t reach back to fundamentals they learned way back when-they never learned them at all. You can’t use what you never have had.
Oh well, it goes hand in hand with the political correctness and wimpiness of a lot of them. It’ll be tough sledding if or when the Islamists take over around here and a lot of these fine young folks or their kids get stoned-not in a good way, or their right hands cut off. /s
Damn. Future demwit voters.
If that information is correct, it could be that religious schools are more difficult and the kids feel more pressure to perform. When I taught public school most of the kids didn’t care how they did on tests. They would have LIKED an A but they didn’t care enough to study and frankly, most were too lazy to even cheat.
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