It seems as if the typical middle class citizen is practiced in the custom of ignoring the root cause of any educational issue today. The question of integrating moral and ethical components into the school structure is virtually taboo. The national standard is to escape all topics surrounding morality (i.e. religion, racial issues, homosexuality etc...). As American citizens, we play the "let's be politically correct game" all the time. It would be too risqué' to start incorporating personal concepts into public institutions.
             Public schools should not adopt a single principle from which they preach to students the fine points of humanistic living. They should try to educate students to their fullest capacity. Education has many facets and can not be fulfilled solely through textbook understanding. By eliminating the morality issue, an entire element of the educational process is lost and forgotten. Students grow up thing it's alright to be mediocre contributors to society. In contrast, the inclusion of morality allows students to gain a stronger sense of self, rather than a constantly wavering confidence level.
             Some insist that morality is a characteristic that must be taught at home. Ideally, the family should provide children with a warm, cozy picture book rendition of what is right and wrong. But let's be realistic; the current state of the modern American family is in no condition to foster moral development. Somewhere along the line, the structure of family has changed. Our culture today is full of single parents and latch-key kids. To suggest that a child growing up without parental guidance can in fact enter the adult world with a secure sense of how to live ethically is ridiculous. Children learn from the nature of their environment. If eight hours of a child's day is spent in school, shouldn't we teach and reinforce moral behavior? By way of efficiency, i...