Integrating Moral and Ethical issues into the school sysem

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 …

…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, it seems most beneficial that schools adopt some method of preparing student to deal with questions of morality. In a perfect world, children would be nurtured ethically at home by family members. Yet, when that cannot happen, as in many cases, the schools have a basic responsibility to step in.