RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS– TEACHER RAYMOND NELSON CREATES GENTLEMEN’S CLUB TO TEACH LIFE LESSONS TO BOYS WHO HAVE NO DADS AT HOME
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RAYMOND NELSON, MEMMINGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER – RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS {WEDNESDAY SERIES}
The club was started by this school principal to guide kids and is headed by a student support specialist.
By Sethuraman S
A teacher in South Carolina is helping instill confidence in at-risk children and working to mold them into young gentlemen during the winter break. Raymond Nelson, who is the student support specialist at a school in South Carolina, has formed a “Gentlemen’s Club” for fifth graders. Every Wednesday. Nelson teaches them basic life lessons and helps them dress for success, reported CBS News. Nelson is keen to be a father figure to the at-risk kids in the community.
Nelson, who’s a teacher at Memminger Elementary in Downtown Charleston, says the club’s motto is: “Look good, feel good, do good.” Nelson believes a good part of your confidence comes from wearing good clothes and knowing how to present yourself and act around other people. Close to 60 students turn up at Memminger Elementary School every Wednesday. He is keen to teach kids similar invaluable life skills that will stand them in good stead in the future. “I was thinking maybe if I have the boys dress for success,” Nelson told WCSC-TV. “When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tuxedo?” They also get life lessons like cleaning their neighborhood and watering plants.
He is aware that many of them don’t have the support they need, at home. Nelson said that he wants to guide them. “I know a lot of them struggle because a lot of them don’t have men at home, so I just want them to grow up and think of the things that I teach them,” said Nelson. “They like the reaction of walking up to classrooms and say, ‘Oh, you look so nice and handsome,’ they just love it.” Nelson himself benefitted from one such group, where he had joined at the request of his mother. “It helped me to be a better man and I could spread the knowledge to the young boys,” he said.
CONCLUSION
More than ever today, this type of club is desperately needed. Almost 80 percent of black kids grow up in a home without a dad. This Chicago’s former Superintendent of Schools referred to Chicago High Schools as a “Path From High School To Prison.” African Americans account for ~13 percent of the U.S. population but ~50 percent of the U.S. prison population. Let me repeat that. U.S. Prisons are populated with 50% black inmates, while blacks represent ~13% of the U.S. total population. There are numerous root causes to this crisis, but we NEVER discuss the missing black Dads.
Mr. Nelson is teaching these young men the things my dad taught me. We are fighting an uphill battle until we talk about and fix this problem. Thank you, Mr. Nelson, for taking the needed action.
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