Do you wish that schools taught ethics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. That should be left up to the parents.

Ideally, the parents should instill such values in their children. But many parents aren't, and neither is the media/popular culture.

So, someone has got to step up to the plate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. That should be left up to the parents.

Ideally, the parents should instill such values in their children. But many parents aren't, and neither is the media/popular culture.

So, someone has got to step up to the plate.

Unfortunately schools can't hold a bat.

[Anonymous]

Who's ethics are we going to teach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who's ethics are we going to teach?

There are generally accepted ethics--those that most people appreciate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. That should be left up to the parents.

Ideally, the parents should instill such values in their children. But many parents aren't, and neither is the media/popular culture.

So, someone has got to step up to the plate.

If values are not taught and reinforced by parents at home, teaching them at school won't do anything...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whose ethics are you going to teach...?

Exactly!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. That should be left up to the parents.

Ideally, the parents should instill such values in their children. But many parents aren't, and neither is the media/popular culture.

So, someone has got to step up to the plate.

Most parents simply aren't there, so we have cheap immigrant labor instituting their ethics/values/culture in the children. Is this the goal?

[Anonymous]

Our principal used to push character. She would read a quote each day and let students and teachers acknowledge each other on the announcements, you could be nominated for the Wall of Character. This was at a public MS.

With the change of leadership, there's no school wide push just something individual teachers might discuss and model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. That should be left up to the parents.

Ideally, the parents should instill such values in their children. But many parents aren't, and neither is the media/popular culture.

So, someone has got to step up to the plate.

If values are not taught and reinforced by parents at home, teaching them at school won't do anything...

So we shouldn't even try? We should let them be?

[Anonymous]

We should model and enforce good ethics, but I don't think you can do that in public schools. Can you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's ethics are we going to teach?

There are generally accepted ethics--those that most people appreciate.

Are you kidding? We can't even agree as a country on a "Common Core" of objectives for math and language arts. How could we ever agree on common ethics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should model and enforce good ethics, but I don't think you can do that in public schools. Can you?

Really? You don't think public schools can/should children teach the importance of honesty and integrity? Treating people with kindness and respect? None of this has anything to do with religion.

[Anonymous]

They DO teach ethics in school but if it is not reinforced at home....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They DO teach ethics in school but if it is not reinforced at home....

Yes. Public schools have to have anti discrimination anti bullying and other character education programs to shield themselves from lawsuits. Kids still bully and behave badly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's ethics are we going to teach?

There are generally accepted ethics--those that most people appreciate.

Are you kidding? We can't even agree as a country on a "Common Core" of objectives for math and language arts. How could we ever agree on common ethics?

+1. I love that a follow up post pro teaching ethics includes an anti-immigrant screed. I am sure I do not share a common core set of ethics with that poster and don't want my son to either .