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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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.
Need to get some core values back into our culture. When I first went into the Army in 1965 it was the first time I learned words like duty, honor, county, loyalty and courage. I lived it for twenty years and it felt right and good.
Why not? Isn’t there a board game or TV show of that name??
Legacy
And these same lying, cheating, dishonest youngsters think Obama is just wonderful.
I would say the "me, me, me" mentality is more a timeless function of age and not necessarily "the times we live in."
Think about the roaring 20s, when youth were spending money left and right on moonshine and movie tickets.
Then the Depression hit and humbled everyone.
After the War, you had the sports car era, where cars became more popular and kids began spending tons of money souping them up.
Then you had the very very selfish hippie era of the 60s...
Then abortion and birth control paved the way for consequence-free sex in the 70s...
More "me, me, me" of the 80s and 90s, and now electronics and the internet have led to instant-gratification, which continues today.
But I don't think it's fair to say that it's just the "teenagers of today"...it has always and will always be that way. There's just a "piling-on" effect from generation to generation, as things become less of a luxury to work towards and more of a given.
The only solution is to do right by your own kids and set them up right for life by making them hardworking and understanding the importance of sacrifice.
Well, plagiarism didn’t present a problem for our VP-elect to reach the second-highest position in the country. What kind of message does that send to kids?
I agree. And Laura Ingraham was discussing this today, I caught part of it, and she was hesitant to pile on the new generation because generations always do this (talk of how bad the next one is). But there is a cumulative slippery slope of decline in this country.
Bookmark.
Since statistically 50% of teens must be “better” than the other 50%, the fact that 77% of teens believe they are “better” is hardly surprising. What is more surprising is that 23% of them recognize that they are “worse” than most people they know.
At any rate I can't imagine that they could be stupider or less honest than the hippie generation currently in power.
With no God there is no moral compass but the law and if you don’t get caught then there is nothing wrong with any behavior.
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