I considered that, but felt it fell under the umbrella of reading. Reading which includes history, literature, etc. in which honesty and civility can be found. However, it crosses the line when reading becomes about social agendas or history is twisted for social agendas.
Honesty and civility do not fall under reading. History and literature are full of bad examples of both. The child must learn not to lie and cheat and to not conduct themselves in a manner that disrupts the decor of the classroom and interferes with the learning of their classmates. Teaching and enforcing those principles is a significant responsibility of the teacher.
Enforcing is on thing, teaching another.
Who teaches the kids morals, values, it starts in the home before the kid enters school.
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It should for sure but all too often does not.
Particularly in inner city schools if a lot of those teachers were not teaching morals and values the kids would never learn them a all before leaving school.
I would be incensed if the school district began teaching moral to my child with out my permission. Who’s to say the morals taught are morally correct?
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I never said parents dont have a responsibility, I’m saying that the public education system is not just about reading and writing. Morals and responsibility are socially accepted values that can and are encouraged and taught in school.
As far as my extreme reaction, i apologize.
The ad hominem attacks on me get old.
You are implying that we can’t agree on some basic morals. If we can, then those can be taught in schools.
I will agree that doctors dont like seeing patients in pain, but i have to disagree on many of the other things you said.
The pharmaceutical companies intentionally downplayed the addictiveness of their drugs. Furthermore, they gave doctors incentives to prescribe them.
It is not just Oxycodone that is the problem but Fentanyl, which a lot of it was coming and being imported from China.
The porous Southern Border is mainly a large hole that is feeding this epidemic!
If the parents are teaching their kids to be dishonest and uncivil at home it is still the duty of the teacher to enforce the values of honesty and civility. Enforcement is a form of teaching.
Sometimes the morals of the teacher are discovered after they try to screw the children.
Two recent seizures on the Southern Border each resulted in enough Fentanyl to kill everyone in several large cities being prevented from ever hitting the streets.
How much more made it through?
Unfortunately a lot of kids make it to school today little better than feral animals with no moral compass at all. Worse they have parents that are the worst of examples if present at all.
Leaving the moral education to parents only works if the parents have and teach basic morals at home in word and in practice.
Unfortunately in many cases no one is giving them any sort of moral foundation at home.
Im not denying that imported illegal drugs are a problem. My point was that the problem was, to a significant extent, created, and promoted by drug companies.
Which is not true.
But the simple reality is this: According to the large, annually repeated and representative National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 75 percent of all opioid misuse starts with people using medication that wasn’t prescribed for them—obtained from a friend, family member or dealer.
And 90 percent of all addictions—no matter what the drug—start in the adolescent and young adult years. Typically, young people who misuse prescription opioids are heavy users of alcohol and other drugs. This type of drug use, not medical treatment with opioids, is by far the greatest risk factor for opioid addiction, according to a study by Richard Miech of the University of Michigan and his colleagues. For this research, the authors analyzed data from the nationally representative Monitoring the Future survey, which includes thousands of students.
While medical use of opioids among students who were strongly opposed to alcohol and other drugs did raise later risk for misuse, the overall risk for this group remained small and their actual misuse occurred less than five times a year. In other words, it wasn’t actually addiction. Given that these teens had generally rejected experimenting with drugs, an increased risk of misuse associated with medical care makes sense since they’d otherwise have no source of exposure.
But for the majority of students, who weren’t morally opposed to recreational chemicals, medical use made no difference. Here, heavy recreational drug use was what mattered, and that was probably a sign that this group was was at highest risk of addiction in the first place.
Only about 20-25% of addicts became addicted using legally prescribed opioids.
Most addicts became addicted using them recreationally.
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I agree with you here. It is unfortunate, and while we can’t absolve these parents of their complete lack of success, regarding the upbringing of their children, it does raise questions about why there are so many that fall into this category.
At some point, we have to consider the possibility that our social structure is, at the very least, contributing to these problems.
Being born into single parent families is the most common risk factor.
One parent absent completely, the other working full time or or often drunks, drug addicts, whoring around etc leaving the kids to raise themselves.
I will not disagree with you here, because much of what you say rings true.
We should be careful of stating facts without sources, though.
Actually, I would agree with you on this Samm were things not so upside down in today’s world.
I got disciplined a lot in school for being disruptive. Mostly, I wanted to play and not pay attention. Paddling was a weakly thing. Not to cheat was taught as well. But my school didn’t teach me morals and values. My parents and grandparents did.
I knew if I was found cheating or doing something immoral, by parents would be called and there would be hell to pay when I got home. That was the deterrent.
Unfortunately, the schools today have very little they can do about discipline. Remove the child from the classroom, detention, suspension. All of which without the parent backing up the teacher are fairly meaningless toward changing behaviors.
Today, if we are to allow a school to teach morals and values we wind up with things a parent may disagree with. For example, the morally right thing to do is to believe in and fight for global warming, transgender is normal, it is okay to have two daddies…
Were my child still in school, I’d not want that being taught to them. 