Liberals - how do you feel about character and morals being taught in public schools?

Question

I LOVE IT!

The kids have to get it somewhere and sure aren't getting it in liberal (you can't tell me what to do or how to behave) homes.

My kids already know and do all this stuff. They were raised to be Conservative moral people with good values.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=554871

Answer 1

They're doing it in our schools. They call it "character education" and they have, get this: 10 of them.

Posters around the lunch room, each with a different character trait. Honesty, Respect, etc.

Kind of amusing, and I'm all for it.

Oh, and take it from me, the best way to avoid the kids turning on you is to tell them from day one that there is NO BAIL FUND.

Answer 2

A public college is basically the "State" or the government. So your question could nicely be rephrased as: How do you sense some government coaching your little ones ethical character? From my attitude, this is horrifying, reprehensible and has been finished in the previous in different countries (and in step with risk is being finished in this one) with under honorable (one might say evil) reason. Many might say, top now, that public faculties could be coaching ethical character using fact the dad and mom are no longer... yet how approximately while / if the political climate shifts to a minimum of something which you disagree with? Is it nevertheless ok then? California in basic terms handed a regulation (signed by using the Guv'na) that bans the words "mom and pa" in any college cloth or communicate. this is supposedly to coach tolerance of non-classic families... and frequently, while somebody claims extensively that fogeys are no longer coaching ethical character to their little ones, this relatively interprets into: dad and mom are no longer coaching ethical character to their little ones THAT I trust. enable the paperwork (regardless of social gathering in charge or winning ideology) define and coach ethical character? i do no longer think of so and that i can't understand why any sane guy or woman (without a political schedule) might decide for this.

Answer 3

Character and morals should be taught at home first, before children start school. The job of the teacher is to teach subjects (English, math, etc.) not morality. It is the parents responsibility to instill values and teach their children the difference between right and wrong.

My son just recieve the "Good Citizenship" award at his school (it's a schoolwide award K-5 and he's in Kindergarten) and he was raised in a liberal home. He is picked on almost daily by the son of one of our conservative Republican selectmen. So much for your theory...

No, children should not be required to learn morals and values at school, but they should not be allowed to attend school until they have grasped the concept of common decency.

Answer 4

I am a moral Liberal Christian person, and I live my life abiding by Liberal Christian morals and values. Marriage and life are sacred. War is wrong. Lying to the American people is wrong. Assuming that poor people or immigrants don't matter or are beneath you, because they differ from you, is un-Jesus-like in the extreme. Using God and Jesus to get votes for, or in any way promote, an unGodly agenda is morally wrong.

See? It works both ways, hon.

Answer 5

Stop causing trouble, lady. Nobody said being a liberal was like being a weird old hippie. Morals and character were around before Christianity and way before conservatives with a capital "C". What I would like to know is why you think liberals would be against programs like the one outlines in the article, and how exactly that program is supposed to be spreading your oh so special conservatism with a capital "C". Would you teach your children to treat a child who lives in a home with two mothers or two fathers the same as children in a traditional home? What about children who are a different religion (i.e. Muslim) than they are? Would you let your child go to the houses of these children if their parents were upstanding citizens? If you said no, then you just shot yourself in the foot on this one. That is the difference between liberals (who don't need a capital letter because they're no better than anyone else) and conservatives with a capital "C". Children of conservatives with a capital "C" are taught to be kind and polite to people who look think and act the same way that they do. Children of liberals know that everyone is human and everyone deserves to be treated equally regardless of race, class, religion, orientation, or anything else.

Answer 6

my son is 20, and the product of public education. he will have his masters in physics by the end of this semester and his phd within 18 months. public school some may oppose, probably due to the high failure rate. but is that really the schools fault? or would you consider it the parents fault? school is school. its what you make out of it that counts.
btw, i am a product of private education, somewhat successful comparatively speeking as well as my younger brother. i really see no benefit of a private education at this point. education starts at the home. alot of time morals are confused with schooling. i made the decission that i would rather have my child in "educational" classes during "school" and saved the chapel and choir classes for sundays.

Answer 7

Excuse me but I was raised in a liberal home and I will raise my children in a liberal and kind and loving home.

I am so tired of the false belief that conservatives are the party for families.

If by good values do you mean love, kindness, respect for people different than you, caring for the environment, NOT judging people who are different than you and caring more about people than money? Because that is a liberals values.

It is the parents job and NOT the schools place to teach morals. Or are you conservative parents just not up for it?

Answer 8

I didn't know conservatives had a monopoly on good character and morals.
Most of the Catholic families I grew up with were democrats, and probably liberal, too. Wonder why they teach character and morals in Catholic schools?
Trouble with you Bible Belters is you think you are morally superior because you have faith in the God you have chosen and those who don't choose your particular brand of religion are heathens doomed to burn in Hell.

P.S. I didn't visit your website, everything I need to know about you was in the question.

Answer 9

the majority of liberals are good moral people. The majority are actually Christians teaching their kids good Christian values. I am a so called Liberal and that is what I teach my children. Not Conservative values, but Christian values.

Answer 10

I notice you don't say anything about GOOD character and GOOD morals. Conservatives never seem to be for GOOD family values, either -- only "family values". I suspect you're concerned merely with conformity. You just want everyone to have the same values -- CONSERVATIVE ones.

Answer 11

I'm a Liberal. My kids go to a Catholic school, and I'm all for having the choice to send one's children to a school that offers ethical guidance and discussion around morality and spirituality.

I personally believe in the Christian God, and that belief is the foundation of all else that I believe, about life, about society, about the world around me... about everything.