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<blockquote data-quote="OKNewshawk" data-source="post: 2020649" data-attributes="member: 6592"><p>No, sir, I am not "missing the point." Parents may be the primary teachers of morality and religion/faith/belief but the school used to be a mirror of the parents' morality and beliefs. That was stripped away while I was in grade school about sixty years ago. Sixty years-that's a generation or two of children who grew up in a world where the school did not conform with the morals and beliefs of the parents. Sixty years where the educational system slowly inculcated into society that religion was not important, that people had a "right" to feel good about themselves no matter what it meant to those around them-that their happiness was above all else. It is any wonder those children grew up into parents who believe that corporal punishment of children is never a good idea, but screaming their selves hoarse, threatening and bribing children to be "good" (i.e. quiet, behave, etc.) and who have abdicated their responsibility to teach morality <strong>TO THE SCHOOLS</strong>?</p><p></p><p>You wrote "Parents should...", "Parents should..." but who is there to backstop the teaching of morals and the difference between right and wrong when the parents fail to do so? You also wrote "...I keep my mouth shut, as I am not their parent." Even Hillary Clinton recognized that it "takes a village to raise a child." If you consider your extended family a "village" then by your own admission you are turning away from your responsibility to assist/backstop/bulwark your sister and brother-in-law. This attitude of yours is just one example of the legion of failures that give rise to situations such as we have witnessed of late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OKNewshawk, post: 2020649, member: 6592"] No, sir, I am not "missing the point." Parents may be the primary teachers of morality and religion/faith/belief but the school used to be a mirror of the parents' morality and beliefs. That was stripped away while I was in grade school about sixty years ago. Sixty years-that's a generation or two of children who grew up in a world where the school did not conform with the morals and beliefs of the parents. Sixty years where the educational system slowly inculcated into society that religion was not important, that people had a "right" to feel good about themselves no matter what it meant to those around them-that their happiness was above all else. It is any wonder those children grew up into parents who believe that corporal punishment of children is never a good idea, but screaming their selves hoarse, threatening and bribing children to be "good" (i.e. quiet, behave, etc.) and who have abdicated their responsibility to teach morality [B]TO THE SCHOOLS[/B]? You wrote "Parents should...", "Parents should..." but who is there to backstop the teaching of morals and the difference between right and wrong when the parents fail to do so? You also wrote "...I keep my mouth shut, as I am not their parent." Even Hillary Clinton recognized that it "takes a village to raise a child." If you consider your extended family a "village" then by your own admission you are turning away from your responsibility to assist/backstop/bulwark your sister and brother-in-law. This attitude of yours is just one example of the legion of failures that give rise to situations such as we have witnessed of late. [/QUOTE]
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