Other results noted by the institute included:
— More then eight in 10 students — 83 percent — admitted that they lied to a parent about an issue of some importance, while 43 percent of the students in public and private schools said that they have lied to save money.
— In a 2006 survey, 60 percent of the students said they cheated on at least one test and 35 percent cheated two or more times. This year, the numbers rose to 64 percent and 38 percent on the same issues.
— The Internet makes plagiarism easy, with 36 percent of the students confessing that vice — up from 33 percent in 2004.
— Self-esteem is not a problem, since 93 percent of the students reported that their ethics and character were satisfactory and, in a popular quote from the survey, 77 percent said that “when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know.”
They must be patterning off the corporate world…CEOs…fraud…etc.
83% of statistics are fictional.
Is anyone surprised that there is an enormous difference between the external gloss and the inner reality? See Today’s New YOrk Times, Op-ed on The Demise of Dating. Here’s the simple truth. The liberals will say, nodding their heads wisely, “Ah, you are merely upset because there has been a paradigm shift.” I asked Kendall to print it; I hope he does. The news is in fact very bad because this generation, far more than most in the past, cannot see the difference between their actions and their opinion of themselves. But then, this is what having solipsistic, narcissistic parents teach their children. Larry