If that’s the attitude that everyone has, suppose no one is giving it? How about if everyone was giving it? I like the latter much better. Everyone has a choice, but the decision to display the quality of respect can’t be predicated on whether or not we are receiving it. This is not easy, it’s hard I know. I would highly recommend that everyone pick up a copy of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. (See Below) The first habit is to Be Proactive. A decision to be respectful to everyone should be made well before we are confronted with disrespect. Those decisions are made way down deep in the chambers of our own soul. Help your students make the decision now to be respectful all the time to everyone. If we all give it; we all get it.

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Bench Notice

Having a high regard for the rights and privileges of another person; that’s respect. It doesn’t say who the person is or the position that they have in life; it says another person. Too often those who are down trodden or who are on the lower end of the economic scale can be treated with a greater degree of disrespect than others. The homeless on the street have the same blood running through their veins as everyone else does. We don’t have to agree with someone’s  lifestyle or even their attitude. Our job is to respect everyone as a human being that shares this world with us.