2026-2027 Parent Handbook - Flipbook - Page 69
Manners & Morals
As a guide, students become familiar with
the precepts recorded by George
Washington in his copybook as the basis for
daily behavior:
1. The Golden Rule: Do to each one as you
would have one do to you.
2. Children should obey their parents and
teachers.
3. Never open drawers, cupboards or closets
that are not your own.
4. M.Y.O.B. - Mind Your Own Business.
5. Touch nothing on another’s desk.
6. Speak no ill of anyone.
7. Let your voice be pleasant at all times.
8. In the presence of others, do not sing to
yourself with a humming voice, nor drum
with your fingers or feet.
9. Listen when others speak.
10. When you speak to a person, look at him.
11. Look at a person who is speaking to you.
12. Do not point or stare.
13. Show not yourself glad at the
misfortunes of another.
14. The young must stop at a door to give
way for older folk to pass.
15. Come not near the books or writings of
anyone so as to read them.
16. Look not when another is writing a letter.
Miss Carden’s
Prayer
Father in Heaven, to Thee we pray,
Asking Thy blessing, day by day.
In all we say, in all we do,
Help us to be kind and generous, too.
Make us eager in our work today,
make us joyous in our play.
Help us always to follow Thy rule,
Father in Heaven, bless our school.
