Values taught at school

[Papewaio]

The other day while waiting for Wasabi I saw a poster that was titled along the lines of "Australian Values". This was posted at a primary school and I managed to google it based on australian school values poster and it was easy to find.

Care and Compassion Integrity
Care for self and others

Doing Your Best Respect
Seek to accomplish something worthy and admirable, try hard, pursue excellence Treat others with consideration and regard, respect another person’s point of view

Fair Go Responsibility
Pursue and protect the common good where all people are treated fairly for a just society.

Freedom Understanding, Tolerance and Inclusion
Enjoy all the rights and privileges of Australian citizenship free from unnecessary interference or control, and stand up for the rights of others.

Honesty and Trustworthiness
Be honest, sincere and seek the truth.

Integrity
Act in accordance with principles of moral and ethical conduct, ensure consistency between words and deeds.

Respect
Treat others with consideration and regard, respect another person’s point of view.

Responsibility
Be accountable for one’s own actions, resolve differences in constructive, non-violent and peaceful ways, contribute to society and to civic life, take care of the environment

Understanding, Tolerance and Inclusion
Be aware of others and their cultures, accept diversity within a democratic society, being included and including others

Do your schools engage in teaching civic values?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Values in school? HAHAHAHAHA!

In American schools, this is what is taught. Based off of the observations of a Kaiser.

1. All whites are bad. Even if they supported the civil rights movement, they're bad. Why? Because they are white.
2. Total casualties for Operation Overlord on the American side was 2,000. The Germans lost 200,000+.
3. Being Gay is good, in fact, if you are not gay, or at least bisexual, you are an intolerant evil monkey.
4. Religion is evil. Catholics were responsible for every murder in history, even before Catholicism.
5. Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, and sex (of the straight variety) is bad. You should read the crappy books on our suggested list instead of doing any of the above. However, if you do do drugs and get AIDs from a dirty needle, it is not your fault, it is the fault of the conservative right-wing government that created the disease.
6. Monkeys can type the bible if you give them enough time.

Yes. These are all scientific conclusions based off of evidence an innocent Kaiser was subjected too over the last year. In other news, schools out woot!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Nothing in high school, but I remember my grade school principal always saying stuff about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

[Quid]

Nothing in high school, but I remember my grade school principal always saying stuff about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I suppose, if this had to be taught in high School it would already be too late. Primary School would be best. On the other hand, it isn't really the school's job to teach these things to children; I would have still thought it would be the parents' main prerogative.

Quid

[Cronos Impera]

Values toaught in Romanian high schools
1. Butkissing the E.U. is good for you
2. Political correctness is desireble to competence
3. Bribery is the solution for you. Everyone must bribe to solve something. No bribery, no succes.
4. Democracy, lazyness and the wooden tongue

[AntiochusIII]

Isn't it interesting that people blame the political opinions opposite to them as the product of external institutionalization, aka high school?

[GeneralHankerchief]

If by values you mean that if you don't do one measly homework assignment it ruins any chances you have of getting into any higher education at all and dooms you to a long, fruitless life of some terrible, dead-end job cleaning sewers somewhere in the slums of a bad part of a city notorious for its crime rate and also forever ruins your chances of getting any reasonably good-looking woman, instead leaving you with a 300-pound, wart-faced control freak who sucks the remaining happiness out of your life making you wish every single day that somebody drops a piano on your head so your miserable existance is ended, then yes.

...sorry. It's been a long year.

[Blodrast]

sheesh....if it's as bad as you guys make it sound, I'm glad I'm not 15 years younger - 'cause I'm not sure I'd fit in anymore...

*tries to remember if he "fit in" even 15 years ago...*

[AntiochusIII]

Well, no and no. These poor high-schoolers are exaggerating their difficulties to score sympathy points from the org adults. And how do I know that? 'Cause I'm one of them.

There is a mission statement of values, and it has just about the same importance as the assembly and "school spirit"--nothing.

In truth, the "teaching of values" in school never works. Nobody ever tried--yes, Kaiser, that is true--beyond an individual teacher basis. An attempt to impose a centrally-managed regulation is always viewed as nothing more than an administrative interference with the businesses of the day by both the student and the teacher; an annoyance, a nuisance, a waste of resources and time that must be put up with to keep the administration off their backs.

Of course, this is public American school. It is quite different from other places. Thai schools, for example, is subject to far stronger a propaganda force, even if it's not so obvious.

[Tachikaze]

I wish we taught values like those in the first post. The closest we have is what the Christians want to post, sometimes called the "Ten Commandments". The first four are:

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image."
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."

What vain god came up with that list, and how do these four contribute to a better society?

All whites are bad. Even if they supported the civil rights movement, they're bad. Why? Because they are white.

Yeah, whites have sure gotten the short end of the stick. They are so unfortunate.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

If by values you mean that if you don't do one measly homework assignment it ruins any chances you have of getting into any higher education at all and dooms you to a long, fruitless life of some terrible, dead-end job cleaning sewers somewhere in the slums of a bad part of a city notorious for its crime rate and also forever ruins your chances of getting any reasonably good-looking woman, instead leaving you with a 300-pound, wart-faced control freak who sucks the remaining happiness out of your life making you wish every single day that somebody drops a piano on your head so your miserable existance is ended, then yes.

...sorry. It's been a long year.

Right on! I love it when teachers go on the whole road of:
"Hand in this one unimportant assignment or you'll fail school completely, not to mention university!"

[Louis VI the Fat]

By chance, I stumbled upon this video. I don't know the context. As the topic here is the passing on off values, I might as well post it in this thread.

Oh dear...

Shoot the Jews