"Discipline is the bridge that connects thought and accomplishment"
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“Character is what you do when you think no one is looking.”
What is character?
Character is what you do when no one is around! The character deficit is not simply a problem of the urban poor.
Increasing proportions of youth from all over the country, from advantaged as well as disadvantaged backgrounds, are demonstrating wanton disregard for fundamental standards of ethical conduct.
Stealing
w 27% of high school students (30% of males, 23% of females) admitted they stole something from a store within the past 12 months.
w 13% did so 2 or more times.
w 26% of male and 19% of female athletes admitted to stealing something from a store in the past 12 months.
w 62% admitted to cheating during a test at school within past 12 months
22% of high school students said they stole something from a parent or other relative within the past 12 months.
18% stole something from a friend in the past year.
Youth Violence
41% of males and 25% of females had been in a fight one or more times in the last 12 months (12% on school property – 17% males, 8% females).
w 30% believe it is sometimes
OK to hit or threaten a
person who makes them
angry (42% of males, 17%
of females).
