Future Mortgage Broker
AP:
Students lie, cheat, steal, but say they’re good
NEW YORK – In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. 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.
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Michael Josephson, the institute’s founder and president, said he was most dismayed by the findings about theft. 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. One-fifth said they stole something from a friend; 23 percent said they stole something from a parent or other relative.
“What is the social cost of that — not to mention the implication for the next generation of mortgage brokers?” Josephson remarked in an interview.
Oh no, if this continues, then the next generation of mortgage brokers won’t be as honest as the current lot, who, without the racist indignity that is a credit check, approved $720,000 mortgages for illegal alien farm hands who claimed they made only $14,000 a year.
Then again, what is really important for these students is not whether they’re “honest,” an anachronism of Victorian prudishness, but their attitudes toward diversity, equality, safe sex, cigarettes, and how high their self-esteem is.