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I want to do a sort of moral maze type discussion with my class next week. Does anyone have any suggestions for scenarios that could get 12-year-olds thinking about moral dilemmas? A mixture of secular ones and religious ones is probably good, so I welcome suggestions from people who aren't Jewish.

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Thanks for those! Talking about shoplifting is a really good idea, because there's lots of permutations around whom you're stealing from, and why you're stealing, and loyalty to friends versus loyalty to the state and rule of law. And it's something they can understand that starts off from obviously it's wrong and then you move on to the grey areas. The children's rights angle is a really good point too.

I'm not sure about the religious symbols in schools one, mainly because I just don't know enough about that kind of thing works here. I certainly haven't come across any debate about either headscarves or crosses, but that doesn't mean there is none, my knowledge of Swedish current affairs is really patchy. In England I would definitely try that one.