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CL9.2.a. Civil rights

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Students understand and appreciate the rights and liberties embodied in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including: 1) Freedom of speech and religion. 2) The right to vote and run for elected office. 3) The right to be treated fairly under the law.

CL8.2. Caring

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Students understand that caring — including the virtues of compassion, kindness, benevolence, altruism, charity, generosity, and sharing — is the heart of ethics. They strive to demonstrate a concern for the wellbeing of others by displaying compassion for those in pain or in need by providing support in the form of donations and/or personal service.

CL8.2.a. The basics of caring

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Students demonstrate caring by: They are not: 1) Being kind, compassionate, and empathetic to everyone (even those who don’t seem to deserve it). 2) Expressing support and sympathy at appropriate times in appropriate ways. 3) Being charitable in judging others by assuming good. intentions and by being forgiving and merciful. 4) Being charitable to causes and individuals. 1) Cruel. 2) Indifferent or apathetic. 3) Callous. 4) Unforgiving.

CL8.2.b. Caring & other ethical duties

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Students understand that the virtue of caring frequently interacts with other ethical principles requiring them to be careful that: 1) Honesty is not causing them to be unnecessarily hurtful or offensively blunt (e.g., telling a person their speech was absolutely awful). 2) In seeking to impose justice, they do not miss opportunities to be merciful and forgiving. 3) While respecting another’s privacy, they do not condone or ignore dangerous and harmful conduct. 4) Their sense of responsibility is proportionate to their actual level of authority and moral duty and that they do not ignore their own needs.