Honesty and today's students

Many are decent and hard working but the prevalence of dishonesty is out of control.  I still remember one of my students blaming me after she failed a test. Why?  She copied the wrong answers off the board thinking I had written them up to be used for copying.  We are at a stage where those in authority are often afraid to call a student's actions dishonest and students are often brazen liars.  They know the system is a sham.

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/parenting-family/teen-ya/story/2011/02/Survey-Cheating-lying-widespread-among-high-school-students/43627926/1

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081201214432.rjut4n2u