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Potato Story

on September 16th, 2011 in Newsletter by the Editor | No Comments

To illustrate the weight of carrying a grudge, a teacher is said to have told her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to school. For every person or offense they had refused to forgive in their life’s experience, they were to choose a potato,…

Forgiveness

on September 16th, 2011 in From the Desk of by the Editor | No Comments

The word forgiveness conjures images of wrongdoing, weakness and victimhood. If anyone is talking about forgiveness, something bad has happened, and all too often it is bullying. A great deal of attention has been paid to bullying lately, and rightly so. Some states have even mandated reporting standards to track…

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- Obedience
  As parents and teachers know, obedience in our children and students means quickly and cheerfully carrying out the wise direction we give them. With Honorable Character, these directions are clearly and consistently defined and reinforced, providing our children and students with boundaries they know and understand well.
- “A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small”
  How do we respect each other? With the value we acknowledge in each person, unrelated to accomplishments, family background, abilities, beauty, or even size. Respect is for all members of the human family. By example we teach.
- “To thine own self be true…”
  “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man,” (William Shakespeare, Hamlet). Shakespeare’s verse is a direction from a father to his son, to be true to one’s own conscience, and as sure as the...
- Potato Story
  To illustrate the weight of carrying a grudge, a teacher is said to have told her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to school.
- Forgiveness
  The word forgiveness conjures images of wrongdoing, weakness and victimhood.
- What Forgiveness Taught Me
  The year was 1969. Cammy, a young middle school student, was waiting outside her school’s gymnasium for basketball practice.