But in this case, it's a good thing: a recent USA Today story about the 2006 National Schools of Character includes the St. Louis-area's own Rockwood School District, along with Arnold's Ridgewood Middle School, on the short list of those schools around the country which create and implement a comprehensive plan for character education. At Ridgewood, for example, that means daily ethics discussions and a project in seventh grade that has students write and illustrate fairy tales with a positive moral lesson, which the authors take to elementary schools to read aloud before donating the books to a children's hospital.

Posted under STL in the News by Amanda Doyle on Tue., Mar 20, 2007 at 11:48 AM