What if I lost my parents before they got the chance to teach me that?
What if I was raised in a foster care and I never knew who my parents were?
And what if my parents don't know these things themselves?
There are many ways that this logic goes wrong. The school should teach that because it is very important lesson to engage in a society and be a good citizen.
Edit: Sorry I meant people raised in orphanages not foster care. I wasn't in focus enough while writing this. Sorry if this caused hard feelinga for anyone
This kind of argument might hold water if there were an epidemic of 12 year olds aimlessly drifting across the countryside with no adults taking care of them. But there's not, and you're not really making any point.
If you are assuming a guardianship role over a child, however temporary, you have a responsibility to teach them things, full stop.
I've known several foster parents over my life who would be outraged at the implicated that they are somehow lesser to the children they raised and are raising.
I think I mistyped what I mean. I meant people who were raised without parents in orphanages not foster care. Excuse my mistake and sorry if anyone felt anything negative from my comment.
And yet kids from foster families tend to have massively worse outcomes than others.
The US is obsessed with racial inequality, but from your life's perspective, it is better being black than being a foster kid, and no one bats an eye on the latter. Harvard won't certainly introduce any pseudoquotas on foster kids anytime soon.
What if I was raised in a foster care and I never knew who my parents were?
And what if my parents don't know these things themselves?
There are many ways that this logic goes wrong. The school should teach that because it is very important lesson to engage in a society and be a good citizen.
Edit: Sorry I meant people raised in orphanages not foster care. I wasn't in focus enough while writing this. Sorry if this caused hard feelinga for anyone