It's Up to Schools to Teach 'Respect and Compassion,' Justice Official Says

While I do think the schools have an obligation to ensure student safety, I don't think we need to put the added pressure of teaching teaching respect and compassion. Not that I don't think that there isn't a need for it, but last week a statistic was made known that only 25% of all the children being educated right now in America, are proficient in writing.
How piss poor is that?
Do they really think the extra burden of something more profoundly complicated is going to improve that statistic?

The effort to stop bullying doesn't begin at home. "Our common mission to stop bullying must start in our schools," said Thomas Perez, the head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
Speaking Friday at a bullying prevention summit in San Francisco, Perez said, "It is in our schools that our children learn to live, play and work together. It is in our schools that fear and intolerance can take root; and it is in our schools that respect and compassion can be nurtured."
Perez’ speech included two references to “violence in the home,” but he said nothing about parents' responsibility to teach their children to behave themselves.
He did mention parents as one of many partners in the anti-bullying mission –- along with government officials and others:
"We at the Justice Department are here to stand