After the boy' s arraignment , some of his classmates cried. Not for the loss of a promising life, but for the high bail that had been placed on their friend.
People die all the time.
Many of today's young people have a difficult time seeing any moral dimension to their actions. There are a number of reasons why that is true, but none more prominent that a failed system of education that eschews teaching children the traditional moral values that bind Americans together as a society and a culture. It tells children to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong. Decision-making curriculums pose thorny and ethical dilemmas to students, leaving them with the impression that all morality is problematic and that all questions of right and wrong are in dispute. Youngsters are forced to question values and virtues they've never acquired in the first place or upon which they have only a tenuous hold .