@Mame,
I see it differently - I think schools should only be for core education. They have limited time, and anything outside of core teachings must detract from the time they have for core subjects. This is a negative impact.
The other negative impact if schools teaching children how to be decent people, is a long term one:
- if parents no longer have to do it, most will stop doing it (the ones that teach them the wrong lessons & the ones that would otherwise teach them the right lessons)
- meaning the children no longer have the role model knowledge of
how to teach their own children how to be decent people (and this lack of skill will carry over into many other life lessons)
- meaning the children's children will now need more life lessons at school (ie. it can start a vicious downhill trend)
Essentially - it's a good short term solution that has dire long term consequences, placing more and more burden on the school system that is meant to be about core education - leading to an ever increasing negative impact on core education.
This same issue runs through other areas of 'governed' society, taking away the need for people to problem solve, and so less people do it...leading to less ability among the children to do so (as they see less examples) and the ingrained expectation amongst kids that the government will solve it (as exampled by their parents expectations).
The idea to me, is well intentioned, but has long term draw backs - as does each area of life where government relieves the population of criticial thinking, problem solving, communicating well, etc. It all negatively impacts society over the long term,
creating an ever increasing number of problems.
There is a reason axiety is spiralling out of control. People with good problem solving skills know they can solve their own problems (ie. they tend to be less anxious). People with good conflict management skills tend to be less anxious (they cause less conflict, and know how to navigate it better). People with good child raising skills tend to be less anxious/angry/frustrated (from the challenges of raising children).
And yes, I'm old enough to see these trends occurring over several decades, and to me it seems obvious where it is going. The more government tries to solve, the more it has to solve (as people offload their skills & responsibilities to govt). It's not a good path. I would rather see an empowered people, resiliant as they can rely on their own skills, with a government that is there when all their attempts have failed, or the situation is beyond them...a government that is there when they actually need help (rather than just want it)
