Kids Today: Cheaters, Stealers and Liers - Oh, My!

[Terjyn]

Call me dense, but what does:

_Forty-two percent said they sometimes lie to save money — 49 percent of the boys and 36 percent of the girls.

even mean?

[redboxcar]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

Call me dense, but what does:



even mean?

Hmm... well, I used to lie and say I was under 12 (when I was in 14-15) to get into the movies and Hometown Buffet for cheaper.

[Crim122]

And they think Lil Wayne is the best rapper alive, Paris hilton is a worthy celeb, hate black and white / subtitled movies...I could go on.

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by lindar

Hmm... well, I used to lie and say I was under 12 (when I was in 14-15) to get into the movies and Hometown Buffet for cheaper.

Ahh. That makes sense I suppose.

I don't remember anything like this when I was that age, which is why I wondered about it. The closest thing I was aware of was people no longer in schools using student IDs to get student discounts, but obviously that would not apply here.

[DetroitSportsFan]

I never shoplifted or stole from my parents.

I did cheat on tests/assignments when necessary, but I didn't have the luxury of the internet when I was in high school in the early 1990s.

[toef]

This comes as no surprise, but I think that all of this will eventually catch up with them. If they cheated once or twice, maybe it's not a huge deal. But the people who were cheating to get by will obviously reach a point where they can't cheat anymore.

If they're cheating to get into a good college, they can count on the good college taking their honor code pretty seriously. Last year in grad school, a girl in my program was kicked out after cheating on a take-home test. She wouldn't give the name of the person that helped her, otherwise that person would have been kicked out as well.

The cynical part of me is concerned about what this means when this upcoming group of high-schoolers start entering the real world, and how they deal with/run things.

[mikejet]

Reminds me of the South Park where they made fun of Stand and Deliver.

[jadedeath]

Colbert covered something similar to this in his show last night.

They're currently going through details on a possible way to go for kids learning, starting from grade 9 they're going to start giving kids $50 for every A that they get per class for every 5 weeks {or so}

That's the wrong way to go.

Logan

[EricJ]

And bad spellars, too.

[fighthefutureofhd]

hahahaha. i just noticed that.

[york weir]

Perhaps kids steal just as much now as they did 30 years ago but the kids these days are more honest in a survey?