As long as Money is the goal, virtues will not be valued. When virtues have no value, decay and debt will thrive. When virtues are the goal, money will thrive and debt will cease to be an issue.
July 16, 2010
May 12, 2010
Absence of Values
Look around, do you see any obvious impressions of character and values?, if so, where do you see them? The latest to surface is, The Miss USA lingerie photo shoot and video. I believe the question is not, is it right or wrong, the real issue is, what effect does it have on our value system that is already questionable at best. How will it effect the ongoing teenage low self worth disease. Is this what we want tagged to our country by name, Miss USA?.
May 4, 2010
Student Discipline Is A Hot Topic
Even before all the fights and arrests at John Hopkins Middle School made headlines, Angela Norris was worried about Pinellas schools being flooded by problem kids. Her daughter, a fifth-grader at Gulfport Elementary, is zoned to attend Tyrone Middle, where a third of the student body was suspended last year.
“She’s not going there,” said Norris, 44. She said she’ll homeschool her daughter or send her to a private school. “That’s how very little confidence I have in this school system.” Student behavior, discipline problems, whether a school is “rough” — all are basic issues for parents… To read the entire article, please click here.
May 2, 2010
What Is More Important?
In the educational system, which is more important, teaching academics?, or teaching ethics, integrity and character? Did a lack of academics cause the economic crisis? Did a lack of academics cause the reason for government officials, celebrities and sports personalities to choose deceit, deception and greed.
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Why Kids Lie
Public Speaker and Author Gary King explains the two reasons kids lie and how parents can correct this.
A GOOGLE SEARCH for the phrase “honesty and integrity” brings up 1,350,000 results. The number might be typical of such searches, but scroll through the first several pages and it’s clear that these virtues are important to schools, churches, employers, government agencies at every level, and organizations that study trends in human behavior.
A study just released by the Josephson Institute, a California group that reviews and conducts surveys on ethics-related topics, says (more…)
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Listen to Gary King as he discusses the effects of sitcoms on teenagers and other children.