Your Cheatin’ Coed

Cheaters may not prosper, but according to a new ABC story, they do graduate. As technology evolves so has intellectual dishonesty.

According to writer Dominick Tao, the Internet has become a haven for students who are both browsing-and sharing-ways to outsmart their teachers. Helped by everything from invisible ink pens to YouTube videos, this moral indifference is spreading faster than the products that fuel it.

In a shocking national poll, more than 70 percent of college students admitted to cheating at least once. When it comes to personal integrity, these young adults just don’t get it. Considering the culture they live in, who can blame them? They’ve been taught by Congress, Wall Street, and Hollywood that the ends justifies the means.

Unfortunately, this collapse of values at college has even wider implications. Not only are we raising a generation of moral relativists, but we have done so while witnessing what this deep-seated corruption can do to our country. It levels corporations, tarnishes our political process, and breeds an incredible mistrust between voters and their elected leaders.

Until we get down to the business of instilling a sense of honesty and ethics into society, we are only cheating ourselves.

Tony Perkins heads the Family Research Council. This article is excerpted from the Washington Update that he compiles for the FRC.