"According to Gallup polling, Lahey added, 90 percent of adults support the teaching in public schools of honesty, acceptance of others, and moral courage, among other character traits. What adults hope occurs in schools, however, is in sharp contrast to observations provided by teens themselves." - Paul Barnwell, from The Atlantic
I look at that quotation and I think two things.
A. You'd think they'd show up for school board elections more often, then, and...
B. How does popular opinion reconcile this with "schools should teach how to think, not what to think"?
The latter is a phrase I've heard all the time... including from Christian conservatives, despite the article's blaming of declining religiosity. It's a phrase I don't recall ever seeing challenged directly, including by Christians or by conservatives. The irony is, it's precisely because of adults' moral values that they are reluctant to use the taxpayers' money and the attention of a captive audience to impose them.
When I was a teacher, the parents who would show up at parent-teacher night were generally better behaved than their sons and daughters. Those who show up might be an unrepresentative sample, but still... I'd most definitely rather deal with a moral framework pushed by the parents if the sole alternative were the undiluted ill behaviours of their sons and daughters. So make no mistake, the idea of teaching right from wrong in schools appeals to me too. But I'm left wondering why no one else who feels the same way has been willing to challenge "schools should teach how to think, not what to think" more directly. Does the idea of character education not constitute at least an exception to that general ideal?
Submitted July 06, 2023 at 09:27AM by Planet_Breezy https://ift.tt/DRAPtaq
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