Each Wednesday, around 60 students at Memminger Elementary School in South Carolina dress for success and meet for their “Gentleman’s Club” where they learn how to be true gentlemen.
Raymond Nelson is the support specialist who works with at-risk children at Memminger Elementary, and he had a wonderful idea of how he could help his students.
“I was thinking maybe if I have the boys dress for success…” Raymond said, “When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tuxedo?”
On Wednesdays the fifth graders wear tuxedos and their best suits to school and meet to discuss life topics such as how to shake hands, how to make eye contact, how to open doors for others and how to address their elders. The majority of the children in his club do not have fathers at home, so he is able to provide them with the love and guidance they so dearly crave and need.
“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,” Raymond said. “They like the reaction of walking up to classrooms and say, ‘Oh, you look so nice and handsome,’ they just love it.”
Raymond keeps extra donated suit jackets, vests and ties at school for any student who doesn’t have one at home. He has found that when the at-risk children know that someone loves and cares about them, that they perform better in school.
“A lot of my students perform well when they know someone cares about them,” he said.
They also teach these young aspiring men how to treat sisters, mothers and their teachers with compassion.
Raymond himself was a member of such a club when
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