Children Learn Their Manners

Rathdrum Mayor Vic Holmes serves a piece of pie as fourth-grade students Makayla Schranck, right, and Gauge Faulkner wait patiently to enjoy their own slices of pumpkin pie Thursday at John Brown Elementary in Rathdrum. (Coeur d’Alene Press photo: Shawn Gust)

John Brown Elementary fourth-graders were talking in class Thursday, and their grades depended on it. Students’ table manners were put to the test when their guests came to the school for homemade pumpkin pie and punch in a formal Christmas setting. It was the culmination of their lesson on manners. Among their guests were some folks the students didn’t know - city officials - but they knew quite well, thank you, by the time the visitors left. “Maybe we should introduce ourselves?” Jimmy Gardener, a student, offered a reporter who joined a conversation at one of the tables. Jimmy excused himself from the table and introduced himself with a firm handshake and straight look into the visitor’s eyes/ Brian Walker , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

Question: Did you teach your children proper manners?