–Cheating in school is rampant and getting worse. “In a society drenched with cynicism, young people can look at it and say ’Why shouldn’t we? Everyone else does it.”’ “What is the social cost of that – not to mention the implication for the next generation of mortgage brokers?” Josephson remarked in an interview. One-fifth said they stole something from a friend 23 percent said they stole something from a parent or other relative. The survey found that 35 percent of boys and 26 percent of girls – 30 percent overall – acknowledged stealing from a store within the past year. Michael Josephson, the institute’s founder and president, said he was most dismayed by the findings about theft. All students in the selected schools were given the survey in class their anonymity was assured. The Josephson Institute, a Los Angeles-based ethics institute, surveyed 29,760 students at 100 randomly selected high schools nationwide, both public and private. “They have opportunities their predecessors didn’t have (to cheat). “The competition is greater, the pressures on kids have increased dramatically,” said Mel Riddle of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.Įducators reacting to the findings questioned any suggestion that today’s young people are less honest than previous generations, but several agreed that intensified pressures are prompting many students to cut corners. New York | In the past year, 30 percent of U.S.
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