Boys With A Purpose
Every now and then, someone crosses your sphere, and wakes you up to inspire a better life. In this case, it was two someones: Kenneth Joyner and Raymond Nelson, a 4th grade teacher and a student support specialist at Memminger Elementary, a South Carolina elementary school who notice that their boys were having behavioral and self-esteem issues. So Joyner and Nelson created a Gentleman’s Club called ‘Boys With A Purpose’ to teach them etiquette. Every Wednesday, boys who are between the ages of 5-11, dress in their best clothes and learn things like how to open doors for a lady, the correct way to shake hands, and the virtues of saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ The club’s motto is: Look good, feel good, do good.
“Our boys are very excited to be in this program, they just love it,” says Nelson.
On The Steve Harvey Show recently, the two men explained that it was because of their own involvement in similar programs growing up that they knew the impact that such a club could have on their boys. Have young men dress up, and teach them early how to behave like gentleman. A simple concept, yet so far-reaching.
And it seems to be working. One of the boys told Steve, “Being in this Club has helped me learn how to be more like a gentleman not just by the way you dress, but by the way you act.”
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