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..."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
"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.
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