20% Of Kids Say It’s Ok To Pay Bribes
Around 20% of Argentine school kids say it’s sometimes or always OK to pay a bribe, according to a new survey by the Education Ministry. Another 30% say it’s OK to avoid paying taxes while 25% say it’s alright to buy stolen goods “because they are cheaper.” Meanwhile, only 35% say “democracy is always the best form of government for our country and the world.”
The survey, which polled 1,000 public school students aged 11-15, also showed that more children (75%) are worried about alcohol and drugs than anything else. After this, kids are most worried about crime and (oddly) AIDS.
You can see the survey here (in Spanish).
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[...] 20% Of Kids Say It’s Ok To Pay Bribes [Argentine Post] The Argentine Post has an interesting summary of a survey by the Argentine education ministry conducted on public school students aged 11-15. 20% of the students surveyed say it’s sometimes or always ok to pay a bribe while 30% say it’s ok to avoid paying taxes. Check out the article for other interesting details. [...]
That survey does not surprise me. I’m from Argentina.
life here, like this, with no safety, limits to take extreme actions to fearful kids, who feel vulnerable.
Teachers should all get suspended at once.
For their incapacity to take mayor actions and protect the children
They are just coming to fill the 8 hrs shift….teaching poorly and afraid also.
vaya, pais en serio
dragno
Why do you find it odd that kids are worried about AIDS? It’s an incredibly prevalent problem in Argentina, and “kids” are headed into an age where they may very well be experimenting sexually.
Dan,
I suppose it depends on the age, and it’s just an intuition about what, I’d think, kids would typically be concerned about in this age group. At the higher range of this survey kids are 15, which would, presumably, be closer to the age in which kids are beginning to be sexually active. Even so, it seems to me that most kids younger than this would be more worried about things that kids are typically worried about – being liked at school or being afraid of the class bully or about doing poorly in math, etc. – than about contracting an STD like AIDS. It seems like this would be more of a concern for sexually active adults.
Taos