Misdirection Play, an Emily Post Post 0
Cleveland area school district arranges for an etiquette consultant.
(snip)
The class will cover the importance of respecting others, making eye contact, social graces, cellphone etiquette, how to write thank you notes and more.
“Bad manners are at an epidemic level in our society. We’ve made kids today so reliant on technology that many are incapable of sitting in a living room and having a conversation.”
Technology does not cause rudeness.
It may facilitate it, especially when the rude can hide behind anonymity, but blaming some hazy “technology” for causing rudeness is as absurd as blaming automobile engines–also a technology–for causing bad driving.
I used to do “communications” training for supervisors (known in the trainer’s locker room as “how to talk good”) back before there was a computer in every pocket.
People were rude in the olden days too.
Only they left behind no evidence thereof engraven in eternal electrons.
Afterthought:
If the kids learn anything, more power to the class.
