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Is cheating more rampant at religious high schools?

78% 10 3
Students attending private religious high schools who say they cheated at least once on exams in the last year. Years until only “excessive nudity” and “the f-word” are banned from network television unless advertisers react, according to Tim Spengler, executive vice president of the Initiative Media ad agency. Rank of Harlem’s black churches among popular destinations for tourists to New York City, after Times Square and Wall Street.
72%
Students at other schools who said they had done so.

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