Youth / OPINION : Morals, Values and Ethics: What Is the Role of Our Schools?
AMANDY BROWNING
Senior, 17, El Cajon Valley High School
Most children acquire their bad traits from friends at school. Lying, cheating and stealing are all learned in the first few years of a child’s educational career.
If we are to halt the progress of this alarming trend, we must allow the school systems to teach our children the proper morals.
Children tend to believe a teacher before a parent. Consequently, we must give teachers the power to teach more than just mathematics. We must let them teach our children to be good human beings.
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