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.
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.