This is too much. Teaching respect, courtesy, turn-taking, sharing, honesty, and other socially desirable characteristics occurs naturally through the hidden curriculum, assuming the majority of adults that work in schools are decent people. It also takes place in the home with family and in extra-curricular/community activities. These standards go far beyond what our already overworked and underpaid teachers have to interpret and pass along to our students. I'm not comfortable with my child's fourth grade teacher attempting to make personal value calls on what is mostly up for interpretation and then teaching that to kids.

It's ironic that something as subjective as social and emotional concepts are laid out in such a cold and surgical way. Standardizing emotions, which are individually instinctive and unique to every individual's circumstances, moods, and contextual relationships with others, is not conducive to developing young people's character, integrity, and socially acceptable behavior and attitudes.

Please leave this to parents, social workers, counselors, school psychologists, and psychiatrists.