Why 75% of all High School Students Cheat!
By Jordan Harms

It’s because our society doesn’t have a conscience anymore! That may sound like a pretty radical statement to make, but unfortunately, it isn’t. Nobody teaches moral values in the schools anymore, at least not what was once thought of as personal morality. Instead of teaching private morality, there is an overemphasis on social policy questions. Students are debating abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, DNA research, and the ethics of cloning, but they’re learning almost nothing about private decency, honesty, personal responsibility or honor. Topics like hypocrisy, self-deception, cruelty or selfishness rarely come up. But I contend that social morality is only half of a moral life; the other half is private morality, and we need both. Focusing on issues of social injustice without promoting virtues and morality is only half a loaf. (more…)