Parents Abdicated Responsibilities  April 28, 1994|The Morning
Call  To the Editor:  "Another View" (Monday, April 25) made
some interesting points concerning values, children, the schools
and parents.  There were, however, gaps in logic that troubled
me. The author stressed that we need to have "parents,
grandparents, teachers, and others" provide the moral "input" to
our children, after commenting that the average child spends as
much as twice the amount of time watching television as he does
in school.  It seems to me that an effort by the schools to
teach values flies in the face of what is real in this society.
How is the school to teach honesty as a value when the student
spends four times as much time in a world where being "slick" is
considered to be a positive trait? How do the schools plan to
inspire students to "fairness" in a world where corporate bottom
lines mean much more than the lives of their employees (or
should I say "ex-employees")? Will a student learn "altruism"
when he sees his teacher