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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the PPs scenario of a lying student, having already had the formal instruction means that the student will understand when the teacher asks "Were you showing trustworthiness? What would a better choice have been?" Or in the PP's case of one student being mean to another, the teacher can point to the school rule of fairness, caring, or citizenship and explain to the student why she was wrong and what she should have done. If you haven't already set out the expectations so everyone understands, how can you intervene when one is broken?[/quote]

The reason you don't need a formal lesson is that to the extent ethics and values really are univeral, they are also innate, intuitive, and being reinforced at home and through experience. A teacher doesn't need to give a formal lesson on the ills of lying before calling a child (of a reasonable age) out on a lie, because the child already knows lying is wrong and won't feel he or she didn't have fair warning that lying was inappropriate. Meanwhile, to the extent thics rules are not really universal, I don't want my kid's school to decide how they are taught. [/quote]

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