Thank You for all your comments.

With parents and children busier today than ever before
the teaching of good manners may be one of the things
that falls by the wayside. I personally feel that the
teaching of fair play, respect and good manners should
be part and parcel of a teacher's job. Teachers should
also set an example themselves in their behaviour and
dress. They should be role models that the young can
look up to.

Yes, I totally agree Foxy.
It is a pity however that we don't have more male teachers in the profession these days.
The boys in the classroom need male role models to show them what good manners are., as well as the girls.

SPQR, "Giving schools --dominated as they by PC culture --the license to teach manners will just provide lefty teachers with another avenue of indoctrination. Given time i can envisage a whole raft of new manners embedding themselves ...like it is not right to eat pork since it offends some other students sensibilities"

I think you are right and it is a sly Fox with considerable form in this area who imagines she has found a back-door way to achieve it. Then again it probably comes from one of 'those' sites.

Peter Hitchens courageously said on Q&A (that was predictably heavily loaded with the heroes and gurus of leftist 'Progressivism'), that the cultural war has been fought and lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQY4BuYWD4s

As Hitchens and others have observed for years, there is no way that the cultural Marxists will ever be accountable for the unforeseen negative consequences of their social experimentation.

Feminists have partied long and hard and to incredible excesses since the Fabians' fool, Whitlam, rolled over and offered the taxpayers' teats to them, which they greedily seized and have swung from since. What about multiculturalism, a river of gold to buy votes in marginal seats.

As a taxpayer myself and a parent, I support all young workers and students who are rebelling against THEIR TAXES supporting the hordes of 'victims' and their flea-like lawyers and advocates that Whitlam legitimised and continue to be a dead weight on taxpayers.

Sorry, this should be clickable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQY4BuYWD4s

Foxy,

"With parents and children busier today than ever before
the teaching of good manners may be one of the things
that falls by the wayside..."

I don't believe that's any excuse for not instilling good manners and respect for others. Those qualities are taught through "living" them. If they are not "lived" then any contrived class designed to teach them is going to be of limited value.

I've got it all covered! Just follow the following YouTube, and she's apples!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBVOsW3jrs

And if you are a Frank Spencer, and it don't work for you, then there is this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORXjaLLoIGg