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Our teenagers are more sexually active than any generation of youth before them. They also are consuming more pornography and compromising basic moral standards more often. It seems that many of them have lost not only their innocence, but their conscience, too.
The plethora of negative and immoral behaviors glorified by a media world that's gone stark raving mad -- combined with graphic, non-judgmental sex education and a highly sexualized culture in general -- causes many of them to lose understanding of what is wrong and what is right.
When a young child's sensibilities are constantly violated, and he...
The Death of Conscience
And we could do that with merit pay, real school choice, open the closed union shops of teaching (end the B.Ed. teaching monopoly), and teacher testing.
Bush tried his plan with NCLB and all it did was become the defacto Federal take over of the states' educational system and turn teaching into how to pass Federal mandated multiple choice tests. That isn't teaching.