Yet Robinson said that most students do learn good character at home. The schools are simply reinforcing what is being taught by parents, she added. Teachers were instructed to share the article with their advisees last month. Robinson said that she gave the article to teachers to provide ideas for incorporating character education into classes. Some students, however, were offended by a passage from the article that staunchly supports the teaching of moral behaviors in schools.
Character education is a deliberate attempt to cultivate virtue.
Democracy is about allowing students to make their own decisions. Mills said that school attempts to teach good character are lame and offensive. Attempting to implement character education at the high school level has been a challenge for the Kenan Ethics Program, Mitchell said. However, she believes that an emphasis on service learning and community involvement is the best way to teach high school students the importance of character education. However, English teacher Cheryl Kopec said that there is not one good way to teach character education.