Nonjudgmentalism in schools
When we analyze questions like, "What would make a good high school curriculum?" we must first understand the underlying issues of the question. The easiest way to do this is to find out what makes a high school curriculum bad. I have found that an increasing number of students across America can not bring themselves to condemn egregious actions under the guise of multicultural differences. I believe this to be the biggest problem that faces our young students at the high school level. Furthermore, I believe that multiculturalism has played a role in spreading the vapors of nonjudgmentalism. I quote three teachers whose stories were printed in the Chronicle of Higher Education as my supports.One support comes from Professor Robert Simon whose students don't deny the fact that the German Holocaust occurred. Rather, they cannot bring themselves to pass moral judgement against the Nazis. A student of his was quoted saying, "Of course I dislike the Nazis, but who is to say they are morally wrong?" Professor Simon continues saying students hold tightly to their "group perspectives on ethnicity, race, and gender that moral judgment is impossible."
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thinking that cultural relativity and morality go hand in hand is outrageous and the explanation of the problem is simple. Relativism would like to make everything subjective and assumes that morality is subjective. If morality is subjective then what is moral for one person might not be moral for another person. This being the case then morality loses it's meaning. By creating a positive meaning of morality we create a plethora of negative meanings. Something is only something if it is not something else, but through relativism morality becomes lost. The nonjudgmental view of multiculturalism perpetuates the idea that no one has the right to criticize the moral views of another culture. Without criticizing great evils they will never go away, rather, they will flourish in the ignorance of relativity. How sad for the millions who have been murdered, and sadder for the millions who are unwilling to say it was wrong. The problem that he faced was his students not being able to see the moral implications behind the murder of 6 million people because of the extreme natur
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