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12/21/07 Brook Webb - Learning manners

It was all "please and thank you" inside one classroom today from Louise Sandrini Elementary school in Bakersfield.

There's no room for bad manners in Brook Webb's class and now the $1,000 grant will make sure of it. "This program will implement such things and topics as table manners. When it's polite to enter a conversation, old fashioned things such as opening a door."

Her program "Excellence through Etiquette" was designed to teach the important of good manners that students will use at school and at home.

Good Etiquette that some of her students are already following. "I say please and thank you if I want something, I say please can I have it and if someone gives me something, I say thank you." said Jacob Chairez, a third grade student.

Students will also learn everything from when it's polite to use a cell phone to using thank you cards.

Webb says while education is one of her student greatest needs, an even greater need is to be a respectable successful role model in the community.

Jacob Chairez, a 3rd Grade Student, "I want to behave and not just goof off sometimes."

Webb, "As a teacher we try so hard to remind them of the little things, like saying please and thank you, but now we have the opportunity, my class is so deserving of this, that's it's going to be formally taught. "

Turning learners into well behaved citizens in our community, One Classroom at a Time.




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