The government panel on reviving education has proposed that "morals" become a regular school subject. The proposal is problematic because such a class may be used as a way to instill certain ideological ideas into children.

The proposal was part of proposals designed to cope with the problem of bullying. Clearly the panel wrote the proposals hastily without fully considering factors behind bullying and the true situations in classes and schools. The proposals show that the panel members tend to believe that if institutional reform is carried out, the problem of bullying will be resolved. It is unlikely that such an approach will produce true solutions to bullying.

Behind the idea of making morals a regular subject is the thinking that if children are taught consideration for others, appreciation of life, normative consciousness, etc., it will greatly help reduce bullying. The panel members should realize that the problem of bullying is not that simple.