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Moral Education In Schools Chapter 2 Analysis

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In Chapter 2 of Spring, the author talks about the social goals of schooling. The chapter is divided into sections. Some of these sections include: The Problem of Determining Moral Values, Character Education, Do Public Schools Reduce Crime?, and Promoting National Health. In the section, The Problem of Determining Moral Values an issue that stood out to me was school prayer. What shocked me was that some schools before the year of 1960 made their students recite a school prayer before the school day. This shocks me because there is no way that this would be appropriate in today's schools. It would spark a lot of religious threats. Later, Supreme Court ruled this as unconstitutional. However, the Department of Education Allowed for school prayer but …show more content…

In the No Child Left Behind act there is a section on how character education needs to be taught in schools. I agree with this because it builds personalities and values in students that will be successful in their life. I think it is important to start teaching children about character education at an early age. However, what shocked me was that some religious personals argued that character education is only important if they have religious framework. To me I would think it would be hard to teach character education only with religious reasoning. In the section, Do Public Schools Reduce Crime, the author talked about just that. What shocked me was that the numbers of day 5 years old to 17 years olds were attending school the number of crimes rose. I thought that the number of crimes would reduce. I was expecting, like Horace Mann, that public schools would guide children the other way from crimes. However, I do agree that the “the higher a person's educational attainment, the less likely he/she is to be in prison.” I believe that this is definitely a true statement and does make sense in the real

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