Posted on 03/14/2010 7:46:19 PM PDT by ezfindit
Can something as simple as good manners help to stem the coarsening of our culture? Yes!
Cord Ivanyi, a Latin teacher at a Phoenix high school, was tired seeing the boys in his class subject the girls to vulgar words and behavior. The behavior was disrespectful, and disrupting to his classes. So Ivanyi decided to give the boys an example in chivalry. When a girl got up to go to the restroom, Ivanyi stood as a sign of respect. When she came back to class, Ivanyi held the door for her. [...]
Christians need to resist the slide into vulgarity by creating strong countercultural influences. We can start by elevating our own standards in speech and dress, if we need to.
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Amen to that!!!
yes. I and my husband always practice and exercise good manners no matter where, who, or what the situation. Funny people often comment on nice and classy we are when really we just do what were both raised to do no matter how WE feel about it at the moment. I feel better and have only myself and God to answer to.
Excellent development.
This is good. Something else that works is wearing a dress shirt and tie in the classroom.
>> When she came back to class, Ivanyi held the door for her
It seems that holding the door open for others lately is less an obscene gesture as was 10 years ago.
Can’t wait until Snoop Doggy Dog and Iced Tea become civil, eloquent, soft-spoken gentlemen.
Tonight my child was watching 101 Dalmations on the Hallmark channel and they run ads that say quitting (smoking) SUCKS make it SUCK LESS with Nicotene gum.
I wish I could give her the innocent 1970’s childhood I had with family safe programming like the Osmonds and Little house on the prairie.
Even when I was at my most feminist, I was always appreciative of men holding doors for me - why would you ever want to be nasty to someone for being nice? It’s not like there’s an oversupply of good manners and consideration.
[This is good. Something else that works is wearing a dress shirt and tie in the classroom.]
As opposed to display of face-metal / tattoos / orange hair... and same sex “partner” dangled from arm of the “teacher” I saw recently leading her/its class through the Denver Natural History museum?
Something tells me fixing ~that is going to take more than a dress code... but it couldn’t hurt.
HA...MY rule was always...whomever got to the door FIRST, opened it!
Our daughter’s 5th or 6th grade teacher incorporated chivalry into study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It really was great for the kids.
You’d have to duct tape bars of soap into the mouths of most of the “leading lights” of the Left.
And I always try to be polite and respectful.
When my son was little, and I would take him and friends to ball games or other public places, I would always tell the boys that we were going to behave like gentlemen. I told the boys that younger kids look up to them, and that they should set an example. I told them that we would see other kids running around and behaving badly, but that we want to be gentlemen. And most of the time, the kids behaved. Sometimes I think an overall lack of any discipline by adults in general and parents in particular has gotten us to this point.
Do the right thing now.....feelings will arrive later.
>> I remember when liberal coworkers would say ‘Thanks, but I can get it myself’ years back when I’d hold the door for them.
I recall similar comments.
Realizing that letting go of the door at the declaration of autonomy could be injurious, it was necessary to go the extra step, and properly hand off the doors motion to the ungrateful individual. I imagine that wasn’t the case for every ungrateful door gesture, and no doubt someone got ‘hit by the door on the way out’ during that great ungrateful era.
heartwood, I also recall receiving the polite smile that showed appreciation, that in a strange way, flipped the recipient of the gesture back onto me - I was seemingly granted the privilege to be kind - good grief, complicated days...
If I were clever and artistic, i would design and sell a cool line of graphic t-shirts saying radical, counter-cultural things like: COURTESY, and SELF-RESTRAINT, and CLASS. Maybe it would help.
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