John Moore, a CFRB afternoon show host, was discussing the results posted on the U.S. News & World Report website.

“A whopping 64 percent of high school students surveyed by the Center for Youth Ethics at the Josephson Institute in Los Angeles said they had cheated on a test at least once in the past year, up from 60 percent in 2004. Thirty-eight percent said they had cheated two or more times, while another 36 percent said they had used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment, up from 33 percent two years ago. Cheating on homework is also widespread; 82 percent said they had copied another student’s work at least once in the past year.”

Guidelines for Cheating is an online Wikihow list  of a multitude of ways to cheat.   Perhaps in future job interviews, employees will be given a lie detector test to determine whether or not their high school diploma, their university or college training was honestly obtained.    Even in bible college and seminaries academic honesty is an issue – plagiarism in the school where I work can lead to dismissal.

We just can’t seem to educate sin out of people.   How remarkable!   After all these years, the heart is still deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it?

Pray for the young people you know and remind them as you remind yourself that the wages of sin is death.