There’s a lot more to manners than simply saying please and thank you and it’s never been more evident than in recent weeks that it’s time for parents to step in and do a better job of instilling manners in their children.Reports of name calling, hair pulling, making fun of kids for their language, their race, their disabilities, public displays of passion and foul language happening on school buses anywhere should not be the primary concern of teachers and school districts. They should be the primary concern of parents. Who, after all, is tasked with raising these unruly children?
A case for manners