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A Future View of Moral Education in the United States

In the eve of the new presidential election to take place in October 2000, the disgrace of the American presidency will come to an end. It used to be a debate during the Post-Bush era where personal conduct should have not effect on the public conduct of a president, it proved wrong in the eight years during president Clinton. While there is a minority of the American people who still believe president Clinton did not do anything wrong, the majority realized that the moral standard of United States has gone downhill. The presidential candidates now focused their draw on the issue of personal values to attract voters. Senator John McCain from Arizona became the latest surprise and the hottest candidate on the block because he was an honored patriot, a Vietnam decorated prisoner of war and a conservative. Some experts believe America has finally learning a lesson on the importance of personal values.

Education will take on a renewed form within the next decade. Whether the teachers union will not relent in their protection of their monopoly or not will eventually be immaterial because the freedom of choice will be established either fully or partially throughout the United States. This is a possibility because almost all presidential candidates promised educational reform because Americans want it. Teacher quality will be closely monitored by the school districts and reluctantly supported by the unions. The bottom-line measure is in the effective academic performance of the consumer, the students.

Parents will be given more of their rights in the education of their children. It is feared that although mechanisms exist to help parents participate in the education of their children, few parents will take advantage of them because of their permissiveness and neglect for the care of their own children. This is a sad day in America because parents cannot take care of their own relationship problems with their spouse and they in turn cannot provide the emotional nurturance or supervision of their children. Many social experts predict teenage violence will continue to increase together with alcoholism and narcotics abuse.

A limited form of moral education based on the Christian foundation will probably return to the loathe of the teachers union. This will take place out of felt needs, because of increase of school violence and the inability for students to learn to settle disputes without violence.

School based counseling services and the use of psychotropic medications will increase to help students curb and solve emotional problems so they can concentrate on their education instead of worrying about the conflicts within themselves and between their parents. Parents may begin to wake up to this call for parental responsibility and they may decide to play a stronger role in the up bringing of their children.

Church will take a more prominent role as before as a beacon of hope and a foundation for the teaching of basic moral values first to parents and then empower them to influence their children. Church attendance in conservative denominations may increase as a result, because America may be going a full circle in finally recognizing the significant contribution of moral values in their lives. The outcome is that each spouse will take a personal responsibility in their self-care emotionally and in personal maturity so their spouse and children may benefit from them.

Finally, successful students are no longer measured by test scores only, but by the effectiveness as a whole person so he or she could learn to live a balance life with personal maturity. Relationships will be valued and respected and moral values will be passed from one generation to the next.

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Specific Moral Issues in Education for Consideration

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