Hong Kong Backs Down on ‘Moral Education’ Plan

Re:Hong Kong Backs Down on ‘Moral Education’ Plan by learc83 on Saturday September 08, 2012 @04:47PM (#4493943)

>What is this subject called in the US? I'd love to find out more about what that teaches and what that doesn't.

It's not a specific subject, but usually something built into the overall curriculum. It's generally called character education: here's the relevant link for CA http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/se/charactered.asp

Here's the relevant link for my state (Georgia). https://www.georgiastandards.org/standards/GPS%20Support%20D...

>Wrt "not up to individual states", my understanding is that the states are responsible for the K-12 education curriculum, and so if there's moral education in K-12, I'd assume the state education board controls what goes in there. Am I wrong on this?

You are correct. However, if a state does something that clearly violates the Constitution, e.g. a state promoting a specific religion, it would eventually end up before the supreme court.

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Re:Hong Kong Backs Down on ‘Moral Education’ Plan by kohsuke on Saturday September 08, 2012 @10:35PM (#4494719)

Thanks. These are interesting (and the difference between Georgia and California is far greater than I would have thought.)

If anyone is interested, http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77/papers/thes595.htm provides a reasonably comprehensive but short enough coverage of what the moral education subject looks like in Japan.

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