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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3455 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts

Start with the opening paragraph:

    What would you say if you found out that our public schools were teaching children that it is not true that it’s wrong to kill people for fun or cheat on tests? Would you be surprised?

On the face of it, that's a statement decrying the lack of moral education.

Take also the list of opinions from his online test - those are all cherry-picked discussions of right vs. wrong, as opposed to fact vs. opinion (in the author's point of view).

    In summary, our public schools teach students that all claims are either facts or opinions and that all value and moral claims fall into the latter camp. The punchline: there are no moral facts. And if there are no moral facts, then there are no moral truths.

Once again - he's arguing that morality ought to be taught in school.

Here's the kicker: YES - someone should teach children ethics. However, if I were reliant on my teachers giving me ethics, I would have learned that black kids have no soul in 5th grade, that homosexuality is a sin in sixth grade, that America is the best country in the world because we are chosen by God in 9th grade, etc. I know teachers. I'm friends with teachers. And I do not want a "teacher" to institute my daughter's ethics. That's my job.

Should there be "moral statements" used for "ethical reasoning?" Well, my daughter is learning right and wrong, same as I did, same as my parents did. My parents grew up under McCarthy in the town that got the Rosenbergs electrocuted - I'm damn lucky they didn't learn ethics at school.