Is there enough character education in schools?

[Anonymous]

Do you think that there's enough character education in the schools?

[Anonymous]

"Character" should be taught by parents, not schools.

[Anonymous]

No, there's no enough. It used to be called "civics" and I think it should be taught so we have a baseline instead of pretending right and wrong is an idea that is up to the individual.

[Anonymous]

ick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Character" should be taught by parents, not schools.

What if the parent sucks? Give the kid a chance to learn universally accepted values at school.

[Anonymous]

There depending on who you talk to, there appears to be simultaneously not enough AND waaaaaaay too much "character and social development," math acceleration, reading instruction, differentiation, social studies, science, language, PE, recess, art, music, kiddle STEM focus, math drill, and math concepts in every school that ever existed in the US. It is simultaneously way to demanding for kids and not rigorous enough according to international standards. There is too much time teaching to the test, but then if the school isn't a 9 or 10 on greatschools, you better bet your kids will be corrupted by the FARMS kids and poor instruction/low standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There depending on who you talk to, there appears to be simultaneously not enough AND waaaaaaay too much "character and social development," math acceleration, reading instruction, differentiation, social studies, science, language, PE, recess, art, music, kiddle STEM focus, math drill, and math concepts in every school that ever existed in the US. It is simultaneously way to demanding for kids and not rigorous enough according to international standards. There is too much time teaching to the test, but then if the school isn't a 9 or 10 on greatschools, you better bet your kids will be corrupted by the FARMS kids and poor instruction/low standards.

+1 Now, thanks funny.

[Anonymous]

There are two extremes of the social development in DC schools.

On one side is the militant, follow-the-rules, walk in straight lines with your hands behind your back, do what you're told by an adult, be nice to others or go to the principals office OR be nice to others to earn a pizza party...

On the other side is the KumBaYa, you are special and unique, remember what your parents told you, be nice so that we can all get along and have fun while learning, your feelings are natural and we'll work through them together, just count and reflect...

And some schools fall somewhere in between.

[Anonymous]

... but to answer your question, I think we need more of the latter.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Plenty

[Anonymous]

We have great character education in our Silver Spring School...there are definitive pillars of character that are outlined and kids get acknowledged for demonstrating them. Kids are called on to be their best...I think it is important to teach kids how to show up in the world.

[Anonymous]

We chose parochial for partly this reason. We like the emphasis on building character.

[Anonymous]

The middle school I teach at does a nice job embedding it. Once a week we have a 10 minute character ed session. We are also an IB school, so it's a big part of the IB MYP curriculum.

I work with lots of "at risk" students, so it's a necessity as many of these kids are not learning manners and how to have polite conversations with adults, etc, at home.

[Anonymous]

It's ok. In FCPS it's about 1 time every few weeks, so not enough. In other countries it's called "citizenship" or "civics" whereas here it's incorporated into a health elective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's ok. In FCPS it's about 1 time every few weeks, so not enough. In other countries it's called "citizenship" or "civics" whereas here it's incorporated into a health elective.

I thought civics was early US history?