In this article, students at Scarsdale Middle School are learning to be more empathetic towards each other by doing different things, like hanging out with autistic children after school, and discussing Romeo and Juliet. I thought it was weird when the author described the students as privaleged, I think he could have used another word to describe these kids, because I always feel when someone says "privaleged", they really mean bratty! Also, when I read through the reasons as to why the school has decided to teach empathy to its students, I was shocked. All of the examples were nothing new to me, but similar scenarios as to what it going on at my school. I immeadiatly thought.."do these events happen in everyone's school?" and "should our school be teaching empathy?"


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/education/05empathy.html?em