GMRC

Hello and welcome to the **GMRC** - Good Manners, Right Conduct - project page.

I have been teaching in local schools since 1998. I have been disturbed and frustrated by the negative impact that disruptive student behavior has on student learning. **In the classrooms the misbehaving few retard the progress of the unfortunate many. This is a shame and a tragedy. A shame for us adults and a tragedy for our children.**

One can access all kinds of statistics online that compare the literacy rate of all nations. If studied well enough and evaluated, one can conclude that race, social status, educational background, financial status, have nothing to do with success. The only correlation with success is ATTITUDE. **Our BEHAVIOR determines success**. If your child knows that she conducts herself well, naturally her confidence and self-esteem will grow.

Teaching our child impeccable manners makes him/her a polished human being and we tend to look at that human being in an appreciative light. The ability to hold oneself well, to walk erectly and to carry a polite and intelligent conversation while looking the other person in the eye are all signs of self-confidence. Self-confidence is attractive. But how do we help our children achieve these traits and other worthy traits?

We have become a very busy society. **We have neglected the most important foundation of education which is good behavior**. Together - parents, teachers, school administrators, and the larger community - we can improve our future and the future prospects of our children.

I am proposing a project called **//__GMRC - Good Manners, Right Conduct__//**. The project would start with illustrated lessons in kindergarten and progress in depth as the children mature.KINDEGARTEN THROUGH 8TH GRADE. The project would start with the simple lessons of saying "please" and "thank you", of waiting in line and of using the proper voice level ARE A FEW EXAMPLES. Later the lessons would be followed by real-life scenarios: how to show respect to adults, how to listen politely, how to disagree civilly, how to tolerate diversity and so forth.

Home is no longer a place where most of these traits should have come from. Our schools and the teachers are now left with the tasks of at least supplementing what's missing from home, if not doing all that are missing from home. __There is also an urgent need for a safer__ __classroom so teachers can teach and students can learn.__

I truly believe that spending 15-20 minutes each day, teaching GMRC, at the start of the class period each morning will show a dramatic improvement in students behavior, which will eventually translate to better grades, better performance, less stressful classroom, less paperwork on discipline records, less truancy, less juvenile court cases, and most importantly no more overcrowded jails and prisons.

__Please join me in this project. I welcome your ideas and comments. I would also like to invite you to be a part of the initial panel where we can brainstorm and see how we can get this project off the ground.__

Thank you. Tina