Ethics and Civics to become mandatory subject in Dominican schools for 2025-2026 academic year

[Dolores]

Source: INTEC

Thinking of the collective good and what it means to be a citizen will be back in schools with a curriculum change announced by the new minister of Education.

Education Minister Luis Miguel de Camps announced that the subject of Ethics and Civics is being reintroduced into the national curriculum and will be a mandatory course for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year.

De Camps emphasized that value-based education extends beyond mere content delivery, aiming to shape responsible citizens. This initiative, he stated, reflects a commitment to establishing the subject as a specific and compulsory component of the educational framework.

“This particular point has been one of the most prominent elements in all the conversations we’ve had in recent months,” De Camps remarked, highlighting the widespread support for the move.

The minister clarified that the introduction...

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[PJT]

This is an excellent choice to be reintroduced. Embodied with this teaching should be curriculums to improve thinking, not to fear asking questions.

Regards,

PJT

 

[Meemselle]

But who's going to teach ethics? Who in this country knows anything about ethics?

 

[johne]

Woul

But who's going to teach ethics? Who in this country knows anything about ethics?

Would you like to take a shot at it?

 

[bob saunders]

But who's going to teach ethics? Who in this country knows anything about ethics?

Most Dominicans already are taught the seven deadly sins, so they could build off that foundation.

 

[ramesses]

Most Dominicans already are taught the seven deadly sins, so they could build off that foundation.

It doesn't always show.

 

[Lucifer]

Most Dominicans already are taught the seven deadly sins, so they could build off that foundation.

As a law-abiding Dominican who's guilty of 5 of the 7 deadly sins, I'm uniquely qualified... but for one minor detail: Parents would hate to have their kids receive instructions from a non-believing heathen.

Julia Sweeney understands.

 

[Notengo]

Most Dominicans already are taught the seven deadly sins, so they could build off that foundation.

Most Dominicans can cite the bible while committing their sins.

Seriously, I have never seen a greater distance between preaching and practicing than with Dominicans.

 

[Meemselle]

Woul


Would you like to take a shot at it?

I actually could. I minored in philosophy and I never imagined it would come in handy, but here's an opportunity!

 

[bob saunders]

Most Dominicans can cite the bible while committing their sins.

Seriously, I have never seen a greater distance between preaching and practicing than with Dominicans.

True for many, but I happen to know quite a few Christians that practice and live their faith.

 

[Meemselle]

As a law-abiding Dominican who's guilty of 5 of the 7 deadly sins, I'm uniquely qualified... but for one minor detail: Parents would hate to have their kids receive instructions from a non-believing heathen.

Julia Sweeney understands.

Ethics have nothing to do with religion.

 

[Meemselle]

There seems to be confusion about ethics and morals. I am guessing that the Dominican school system means "morals" and will hence give it a godly patina. Ethics can be taught in schools. Morals really are the purview of the home.

 

[Lucifer]

Ethics have nothing to do with religion.

Thus my J. Sweeney reference.

I'd bet that most Dominicans have never read, or even heard of, The Brothers Karamazov, but most would conclude that "without God, everything is permitted," and that the Satan-loving instructor is evil incarnate... wickedness personified:

<<No quiero que mis hijos aprendan lo malo. No, no y no>>.

Dominican parents would march in protest and demand the instructor's removal.

TV "communicators," social media influencers, and so-called journalists, such as Ricardo Nieves, would wax poetic about the evil that such men do... even in classrooms: "Next, he'll teach our kids that turtles are reptiles."

 

[Ecoman1949]

There seems to be confusion about ethics and morals. I am guessing that the Dominican school system means "morals" and will hence give it a godly patina. Ethics can be taught in schools. Morals really are the purview of the home.

Home and supposedly the church but history has shown church leaders have flexible morals.

 

[johne]

Home and supposedly the church but history has shown church leaders have flexible morals.

The subject wasn't about church morals. Very tipocal of throwing a thread off track to get around TOS and bashing a church .maybe it should start with you,,wise guy. 😄

 

[Notengo]

When insulted, turn the other cheek.

 

[Ecoman1949]

The subject wasn't about church morals. Very tipocal of throwing a thread off track to get around TOS and bashing a church .maybe it should start with you,,wise guy. 😄

I wasn’t deflecting. DR teachers can teach good ethical behaviour till the cows come home but students without a good moral foundation, render their efforts useless. A good moral foundation is a necessary requirement for proper ethical behaviour. Church’s are the self appointed arbiters of good moral behaviour and are inextricably linked to proper ethical behaviour.

Laws can force you to act ethically even if you’re morally bankrupt but laws don’t cover all aspects of societal behaviour. A good moral compass can.

 

[Ecoman1949]

When insulted, turn the other cheek.

I prefer the Irish response. “The back of my hand to you”. Arab curses are very effective too. “May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your groin and may your camels be infertile”. 🤣

 

[Notengo]

I prefer the Irish response. “The back of my hand to you”. Arab curses are very effective too. “May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your groin and may your camels be infertile”. 🤣

“May all your wives give you only daughters”.