South Carolina Teacher Creates ‘Gentleman’s Club’ to Teach Young Students How to Be Gentlemen

Breitbart ^ | 26 Feb 2016 | TRENT BAKER

[Pan_Yan]

A South Carolina elementary teacher is working to help his young students learn how to act like gentlemen, according to a report by WSMV.

Raymond Nelson of Memminger Elementary in Downtown Charleston hosts 60 kids every Wednesday at the Gentleman’s Club, where the children are taught how to dress and act like gentlemen.

He works with children who are at-risk children and came up with this idea to help the children.

“I was thinking maybe if I have the boys dress for success,” said Nelson. “When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tuxedo?”

The club’s motto is “Look good, feel good, do good.”

The children meet with Nelson each Wednesday decked out in their best clothes. Nelson even provides some jackets, ties and vests for the children who do not have some of their own.

[EinNYC]

Oh, they do us a whole favor and wear a shirt to school, but pretty much like that, yeah. Isn’t it just totally disgusting that I have to view their UNDERWEAR all day? I find it nauseating that I am forced to share their intimacy.

[struggle]

I teach speech in a SC HS and we have a “tie-minar” where the boys learn to tie a necktie four different ways.

[OrangeHoof]

The first time these kids encounter a “gentlemen’s club” in the real world, they’ll be in for quite a shock.

Where I live, there is a strip club near where my niece lives called “Perfect 10”. I made a wrong turn one day and accidentally drove her past it.

She saw the sign and said “Perfect 10....I guess it must be a bowling alley.” That gets a huge laugh everytime I tell that to people who are in the know about such places.

[dp0622]

rofl!!!!!!! not the same as the ones in Manhattan, I don’t think.

[Rumplemeyer]

This is a great idea, you start by educating the youngest, start from the ground up.
This is a project worthy of our support, it will hopefully put a dent in the “Ghetto Culture” and the Hollywood Rif Raff the supports it.

[mabelkitty]

I love this so much.
I would totally financially support something like this across the country.
If we lose our little men, we lose our adult men.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

A lot of people don't even know what appropriate attire is. I've always preferred my suits to fit just so -- just can't stand a suit that's baggy or wide. That said, have you seen the way many younger males wear a suit these days? High-water pants that don't even graze the top of the shoe and so tight that I wince just looking at them, and a jacket so narrow that one wrong move will pop a button or tear the back straight up and down, and a button stance that is entirely too low.

I hope proper suit fit is something these people are going to teach. it would be a public service.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Have you ever asked one of these young gentlemen why exactly they wear their pants like that?

My first thought is so they will blend in when their pants are full of drugs, but I fail to understand why the pants need to be entirely below the rump for that.

[JimRed]

“Gentlemen’s Club” has an entirely different connotation around here!

[Pontiac]

“When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tuxedo?”

Well a few years ago I attended this wedding and the men in the wedding party had maybe a drink too many at the reception.

All I can say is cloths do not make the gentleman.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And notice what is occupying his left hand. I’m guessing it’s not a spare water bottle.

[FateAmenableToChange]

“When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tuxedo?”

At my wedding?

[EinNYC]

Have you ever asked one of these young gentlemen why exactly they wear their pants like that?

Such a query would absolutely have been answered by, "None 'o yo bidness, b___h!" or "Mebbe I likes to show my a@@@".

[AZHSer]

Hard to get a proper fitting suit at Walmart and when the only tailor you know is Swift...Lol.

[StoneWall Brigade]

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[Tax-chick]

Fashion, I guess. My 21-year-old son bought a suit recently. It seems to me to fit perfectly well, but he’s planning to take it to a tailor shop to get it altered. He doesn’t like the legs wide, either.

Other than him, I can’t think when I last saw a young man in a suit. Hispanics at church, I suppose. They tend to kind of a Western cut.

[Albion Wilde]

When we were little middle-class white kids in the 50s-60s, we were sent to “cotillion” classes organized in our neighborhood for kids aged 11-13. Lots of communities had these etiquette classes for boys and girls before the onset of school dances and dating.

[Tax-chick]

One of my choir members (Rafaela, the six-foot tall goddess from Acapulco) teaches children and teens to dance for their social events. When they have the party to celebrate a child’s “Presentation,” at the 3rd birthday, the older siblings will do something like a minuet. At a Quinceanera, the birthday girl and her siblings and friends will do several dances.

[upchuck]

This is a great idea. Hope it's very contagious.

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[kalee]

Cotillion is still a thing in the South. http://nljc.com/nljc/index.php?p=chapters&a=county&state=Virginia&county=Northern%20Virginia