>The US no longer has universal shared values, it has many different sets of values that are all competing for survival. Schools have become the front line in t

>The US no longer has universal shared values, it has many different sets of values that are all competing for survival. Schools have become the front line in this battlefield. I disagree completely. Our shared values include belief in the rule of law, equality under that law, equality of opportunity and a whole bunch of other stuff that has always been the rhetoric, but much of which has only grudgingly been implemented for wider and wider swathes of Americans over the past 230+ years. That some folks are at odds some issues most certainly does not mean we don't have shared values. It means that we don't share all the same values/ideas. Which is exactly how it's been here since well before the founding of the US. Edit: Fixed prose.