Coalition, recently released an unsettling report on the ethics of America's youth. The coalition reported that nearly half of the high school students surveyed claimed to be active thieves, and 70 percent admitted to cheating on an exam at least once in the last 12 months. According to that report, we are raising a generation rife with cheaters and liars. We live in a time where the noise of the bizarre and the spectacle of aberrant behavior are blasted at our young people. Too often, our children get the impression that it is the cheaters who prosper, and the unscrupulous who gain.
Public heroes are in very short supply.
But, in the absence of public heroes, private heroes good parents, good teachers, and those men and women who quietly set a good example and who give of their time to help young people formulate character and encourage excellence are acutely important. We all have a responsibility to guide and inspire young people. We need to teach them, by deed as well as word, that character does count. Not only is it one of the most important things any of us can do, it is also one of the most rewarding. It is not too late to save a foundering generation.