I believe that ethics and personal values should not be taught in schools. Students should decide for themselves what is right or wrong, even if they are the other. I also believe that students should learn good or bad morals from their parents or whom ever they were raised by. I think that teaching ethics and personal values proves useless, as we all have our own opinion on whatever is taught, and we can't be forced to believe whatever the curriculum tries to brainwash us with.
However, certain morals should be reminded, for students to take into consideration. For example, health classes should remind students to choose abstinence, but there shouldn't be a whole lesson devoted to it. Things like: study for your test, don't do drugs, and be nice to people are some others that I feel are acceptable in classrooms, because they are widely accepted and are obviously the positive route.
As far as morals, ethics and values go, highly controversial topics like religion, should not be taught in schools. There are many different religions, and is a topic of which the opinions differ from person to person.
We should learn from our own mistakes and experiences, what "right" and "wrong" are. Unlike learning it in a classroom, students won't always agree to the same things or ideas. But who would want to live in a world where everyone always agrees to the same things?
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