Parents need to do actual parenting

Regarding the Wednesday letter, “School sans God is root of problem”:

The 2008 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth found that, “Students attending non-religious independent schools reported the lowest cheating rate (47 percent) while 63 percent of students from religious schools cheated.” The study also indicated, “Thirty-nine percent of students in private religious schools admitted to lying as did 35 percent of the students attending private non-religious schools.” Last, but not least, they also determined that, “Students who attend private secular and religious schools were less likely to steal, but still the theft rate among non-religious independent school students was more than one in five (21 percent) while 19 percent who attend religious schools also admitted stealing something from a store in the past year.”

Source: charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/

Apparently, God doesn’t deter students at religious institutions as the letter writer had hoped. Maybe parents need to actually parent, as opposed to leaving the parenting to the schools and to God.

Rick Nye