Rules and Morality in the Classroom

Rules and Morality in the Classroom
By L. Nucci
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Children and adolescents expect schools to have rules governing moral transgressions such as hitting and hurting, or stealing personal property. They argue that it is wrong for schools or teachers to permit such behaviors because they result in harm to people (Laupa & Turiel, 1986; Weston & Turiel, 1980). For example, when asked whether it would be okay for a school not to have any rules about hitting, one 5-year-old said:

I think there would have to be a lot of rules about hitting at school because it would hurt somebody! (Nucci, 2004)

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