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It is important for schools, both public and private, to help students understand moral choices and social values. Without morals, students wouldn’t know what’s right and wrong in life. Many kids have problems at school and at home. Without a stable lifestyle at home, many kids seem to have the wrong impression on life. This can lead to bad choices that affect everyone. Lastly, without teaching social issues, schools would be teaching students to be ignorant and unaware.

When students are stressed in school, their homework could easily pile up, which could consequently precede a big disaster. Without confidence, moral values, and social understanding, more kids (especially high school students) could have low self-esteem. This could lead to problems endangering others’ safety.

Besides school problems, students also have conflicts with friends and in their household. These days, the number of divorced parents is increasing. Some parents even take drugs and alcohol to cope with their difficulties. If a child’s parents lack morals and values, how is their child expected to make their own appropriate decisions? If a school teaches students life safety, future generations will have a better understanding of popular current problems such as teen pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, health, and other issues that majorly affect people’s lives.

Drugs, alcohol, and violence! Do we really want that environment at school, where kids spend 5 days a week and almost 8 hours a day? Without teaching kids about choices that they may have to make and overcome in life, the school wouldn’t be a positive environment. Kids shouldn’t be sheltered from reality, and should know what is happening in this world. Everyone tells us children, “The future is in your hands.” Without making right choices, the pieces of the future may shatter, leaving us with shards in our hands, or a future that isn’t what we really want for generations to come. In order for the future generations to be successful, they need to have the tools in order for the United States to thrive. It would benefit everyone if all adults acted as role models to children, not just teachers. Teachers can be a second role model for children, other than parents. If children live in poverty, or an environment that isn’t as good, teachers can be the idol, and children can look up to them. Teachers really have the power to “take kids out of the gutter” by encouraging them, and teaching them life lessons that may not be learned at home. Also, teachers are paid to teach, so why not help students expand their knowledge? Some girls have made poor choices, and have ended up as one of the large percentage of single pregnant girls in our state. If these children had been raised with role models that chose abstinence, or had been taught about the negatives of being pregnant at such a young age, then the girls probably wouldn’t have a child like 16 year old Jamie Lynn Spears, one of the Nickelodeon stars who could have been a role model to other girls. With stars that we come to know from watching them on TV, we start to think of them, or their characters as role models, and want to be like them. Media isn’t helping kids make right choices, and schools should create a positive environment where movie stars don’t matter. Now, picture this: children studying in the hallways, and teachers helping kids. What a big difference from the previous picture. With help from parents, teachers as role models, and a positive environment, the whole school picture has changed. Just think about how America would change if this trend of teaching children positive choices could catch on and spread. Schools should educate students to understand moral issues and social issues. Schools should do this because if the kids aren’t educated at some point they won’t know if it’s right or wrong, their parents might not be educating them and it’s the schools job. If the children of today aren’t educated about social and moral issues, if an issue comes up in the course of their life they might not know what is right or wrong. For example now a day’s many organizations are trying to educate students about the dangers of drugs and teenage pregnancy. With educating these students more of them are aware of the consequences of getting pregnant (or getting someone pregnant) and doing drug, they are less likely to do them and wind up in a bad situation. Another reason why schools should educate their students is because many parents aren’t educating their children about these issues. For example when I was in 8th grade we had a sex education class in both our science classes and our social studies. One or two students didn’t seem to k now what some of the basic terminology people use regularly when talking about these issues. The student or students were very sheltered by their parents. If they had be approached by someone asking them to do something to do with drugs or sex they might not have been aware about what was going on and what to do about it. It is the school’s responsibility to help educate the students in ways parents might or might not do, like education on moral and social issues. My final reason why is that it’s the school’s responsibility to prepare you for collage and be a foundation for the rest of your life. You attend school, grade school, middle school, high school and collage to help you prepare and give you a leg up in the world. If they (the school) neglect to teach you about moral and social issues they are neglecting to do their jobs as a school. These three reasons, if you aren’t educated the kids might not know if it’s wrong, the parents might not educate the kids and it’s the school’s job, all are why I think that schools should help students to understand social and moral issues.
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#4 One thing that schools should be focusing more on these days is about the moral choices and social issues that they are faced with all too often. Schools cannot ignore these problems, as these issues get in the way of education, and there are many other problems that could appear in the future for these children. Not knowing makes kids more susceptible to peer pressure, can distract them from work, and where would be a better place to teach these lessons than school? There is much talk these days about being “Above the influence,” but how can we avoid what we can’t see or understand? With education of that which we are looking at. For example, most people know drugs are dangerous, but not how much it could influence you’re life or how to avoid them. This…

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It’s a small world after all, and this is a fact even Disney knows. In this small world everything is connected, a delicate balance of ideas and differences. Now if everything is connected wouldn’t it be important for people to be educated on social issues and moral choices in order for people to make educated opinions on where they stand in order to have a balanced society. I believes people should be educated on these issues in schools because not all issues are dicussed at home. STD’s kill and that’s plain fact. Regardless of moral choices if you contract a STD you will die or have to suffer the symptoms for the rest of your life. These facts should be taught in health class at school, so before considering an opinion on sex students are well educated and can then make their own choices knowing all the possibiltys. Social issues such as abortion should be addressed in schools. Abortion doctors should be able to explain to students what an abortion is and exactly how it is perforemed. Therefore the students can make their own educated opinion on abortion from knowing all the facts. In conclusion I think students should be educated on moral choices and social issues at school so that the students can kae their own educated opinions, because not all families talk about these issues at home. In America we have the freedom choice to make choices however its important to know why we make our choices but beign educated on the topic.


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I believe that schools should help students to understand their moral choices, and social issues. I think this because first of all teachers are in a better position to teach students these things. Some students, (including me) tend to not like listening to their parents. Or maybe it’s not that they don’t like listening to their parents, maybe they have a bad family, or maybe they don’t even have parents. I am not saying that schools should make a course about moral issues or anything. I’m just saying that maybe their teachers could find a way to weave morals into their lessons. I’m saying this because in 7th grade my math teacher found a way to teach us about Martin Luther king, racism, and raising the level of living for African American people; all while teaching us about graphs in math class. His 20 minute speech was the most convincing and inspiring thing I had ever heard in my entire life. If parents
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Opinion at hand- Have teaches teach moral vatues to students My opinion- teachers shouldn’t because teachers need time for teachin, students may not believe the ideas and it is unconstitutional The schools should not be teaching morals to children because the teachers need to have time to teach their classes, the students may not believe the morals that the teachers say and it is unconstitutional. The teachers need time to teach their class, whether it be math, English, science, social studies or any class instead of only teaching moral values that can be taught by parents, church or thought of by child. The teachers are being paid to teach children about school subjects, not moral topics. The children must learn how to write a paper or how to do a math problem but they cannot learn if teachers are spending all their time talking about their moral ideas that the children may not agree with. The students were probably taught about moral issues and found what they believe in before they would be taught about moral issues. Their parents or their church probably taught the morals that were desired. The opnion being taught will probably be either the teacher’s or the school’s. If the child doesn’t agree with these morals, it will be a waste of time while he or she could be learning. This opinion of having children being taught morals is unconstitutional because it conflicts with the freedom of speech. The children can do as they please as long as they follow the law. They are allowed to have their own opinions and morals, not the schools. The children should not have the distraction of talking about morals since some may disagree, teachers need time to teach their subject not morals and it is unconstitutional.

It is important for educators to teach their students about both moral and social issues aside from preparation for college and jobs. This is crucial for their education because it is at school that they spend most of their time and there they are shaped into the person they will grow up to be. Not only should teachers educate their pupils about important moral values, they should exhibit ethics to being an exceptional individual. To become a model citizen, students require the knowledge to influence positive choices in their life. As it is well known, five days a week, a student spends their days at school learning skills that will prepare them for life after high school. Because this is where they spend most of their days, they should not only learn mathematics, English, and science, they should be learning about other important issues such as abstinence and drugs. By learning about drugs, students will know the negative effects that can ruin their life. By being educated about abstinence, they will know the negative effects of having a child at too young an age. To keep them on the right track, they should be educated thoroughly to understand all sides of a story. Because teachers are the ones educating kids, they should be an individual students can look up to. As Christa McAuliffe said, “I touch the future, I teach,” her statement is very true. If a teacher uses profane language, their students may think it is “okay” for them to do the same. Teachers should be model citizens and exceptional role models so that they may be making a positive impact on the future leaders of our world. After all, in the future, we will be the ones voting and making an impact on our world. Therefore, to help students make smart decisions in life and be better citizens, schools should teach them about moral and social issues.
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As kids progress through school, I do think that schools or its educators should help its students to understand moral and social issues they’ll probably face later on in life. I feel that away from school kids face moral and social choices/issues everyday. For example, as kids get older, hormones rise, relationships and intimacy seems to become important in some kids minds. As studies have shown, Hawaii has many teen pregnancies every year. If educators or schools put in the effort to teach kids about the dangers and consequences about sex, then maybe some futures wont turn out so bad. Like I mentioned before some parents don’t even talk or teach there kids about moral and social choices. And if not that, some kids don’t even attend. In life, there are many ways to escape the truth about certain things. I am one of those kids who don’t attend church, but I’m fortunate enough to go to a school that teaches moral and social issues everyday.
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Schools should help students understand moral choices and social issues. Kids should have an idea of what path to take in their life because they might not attend church, which would allow them to make decisions based on their religious beliefs, their parents might not feel the need to talk to their children about moral choices, and kids have no experience or idea of what would happen when or if they would have to make a decision that could drastically change their life. Schools should provide classes that focus on social issues or moral choices that lead kids to better decisions in life. Teachers could set up clubs that could be more convenient for kids who don’t have time during school, and those clubs could have kids who interact with people who have gone through social issues and have experienced a life-changing event. I have personally been through Sex Education at my school and I know that it helped everyone’s knowledge of contraceptives, body functions, and sexual transmitted diseases. I know that it made me grow my knowledge and help me in so many different ways in the future. With Hawaii having a high rate of teen pregnancy and many issues with drugs, I think that it is more than helpful to have classes in school that help students understand moral choices and social issues. All kids in the world need to know how they can protect themselves understand how these issues happen, and where they can go for help. The first place these kids can go to for help should be their school.
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Every, single day, each person, including myself, makes choices based in our moral choices and social issues learned. Schools should help students understand these important ideas. For example, after high school, or even middle school, we need to make life-changing decisions. Secondly, I have learned a tremendous amount of moral choices and social issues in school. And lastly, these choices and issues are just as important as science and language, for example, so it should be treated the same. After high school we all make majority of our decisions on our own. Even though parents might teach their children these lessons, I think teachers should and have the right to enforce them. Also, beliefs of the present time may be different than generations ago when our parents took their stand among these issues. Therefore, schools should enforce and teach moral and social issues to students before high school. Secondly, I have learned that learning about moral choices and social issues helps me, and will definitely help me in the future. In both seventh and eighth grade at Punahou, we learned about these choices and issues in social studies and P.E. It not only taught me how to make appropriate choices now and in the future, but it illustrated what to look out for. So, I think schools certainly review moral choices and social issues as a part of the curriculum. Lastly, students should learn moral choices and social issues in school because it is a very important part in the American culture. Personally, I think that moral choices and social issues are more important and significant than math, language, etc. because you may be able to get through life without mastering trigonometry and the Chinese language, but it would be an incredible struggle to get through life without moral choices and social issues. If we do not understand appropriate choices and issues, most students will eventually fall into peer pressure. Consequently, schools should be forced to help students understand these issues. In conclusion, moral choices and social issues are very important in life. For one, we need these lessons to make smart and reasonable decisions as teens and adults. Secondly, it teaches us what is “right” and “wrong”, as well as prepares us for the adult life. Lastly, it is a major part of life, meaning without them, students will struggle and fall into peer pressure. Thus, students should be forced to understand moral choices and social issues.


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A school’s main job is to educate us students before we set off into the world. I think that it’s important that schools teach us about moral choices and social issues, but I don’t think that they should force us to make the choices that they think are right. Yes, social issues and moral choices like anorexia, teasing, and drugs are important topics for students to think about. I believe that schools should have a brief lesson on what the consequences of your wrong choices can lead to. For example, a class like sex education could help to promote abstinence and possibly lower teen pregnancy rates. This way, students can think twice before doing something, and they also know exactly what they are getting into. Education has its limits though. Schools should not over-teach social issues and moral choices. I think that schools should let students make decisions themselves rather than choose everything for them that the school thinks is right. If schools do this the consequence is, sheltered kids who do not know how to think, or know how to make the right choices. Last year I had a great math teacher, in fact I’m having a hard time in math now because I’m so used to being spoiled by his teaching, and detailed notes. If he was a harder teacher, I would have learned to adapt by finding my own efficient way of studying and it would have helped this year’s situation. I figured out that the answer to all of this is “options.” By giving students a choice on whether or not they want to be taught about it. I think schools should have special classes to further inform students on this topic. If students feel like they need help or want to know about it, then they can come to these classes (totally optional, only for those who want it.) I also think that this class should be like a counselor and help students in small groups or one-on-one so they can really get the message across. I think Punahou is doing a good job with this idea by having 9th graders take 9th guide, which expresses and teaches us about social issues and moral choices in a fun environment. In conclusion, I believe that studying moral choices and social issues is a good thing to learn about, however I think that school’s should address other subjects stronger than this one because they are more important. If students need this type of class badly, then they should seek the “special class” I recommended.